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| − | |Question=What are the ''epistemic stances'' that can be taken by epistemic agents towards different epistemic elements?
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| − | |Topic Type=Descriptive
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| − | |Description=Epistemic agents can take different epistemic stances towards different elements. The types of stances that can be in principle taken towards a theory may or may not be the same as the types of stances that can be taken towards methods of theory evaluation. Thus, it must be clarified which types of stances (e.g. ''acceptance'', ''use'', ''pursuit'', ''employment'') can be taken towards epistemic elements of any given type (e.g. ''theories'', ''methods'').
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| − | |Parent Topic=Ontology of Scientific Change
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| − | |Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
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| − | |Formulated Year=2015
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| − | |Prehistory=In the early twentieth century, many logical empiricists supported a confirmationist view of theory assessment, in which theories are assessed on the basis of the balance of confirming and disconfirming evidence. In 1945, Carl Hempel, a logical empiricist and confirmationist, argued that an agent might take three stances towards a theory, accepting it, rejecting it, or withholding judgment, based on confirming or disconfirming evidence. [[CiteRef::Losee (2001)|p. 167-168]][[CiteRef::Hempel (1945)]]
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| − | |Community=Community:Scientonomy
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| − | |Accepted From Era=CE
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| − | |Accepted From Year=2016
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| − | |Accepted From Month=January
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| − | |Accepted From Day=1
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| − | |Accepted From Approximate=No
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| − | |Acceptance Indicators=While, in this general form, the question wasn't clearly stated in [[Barseghyan (2015)|''The Laws of Scientific Change'']], it was implicit in a more specific question of [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories]].
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| − | |Still Accepted=Yes
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| − | |Accepted Until Approximate=No
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