Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Scientificity Acceptance Use and Pursuit (Sarwar-Fraser-2018)

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It is accepted in scientonomy that epistemic agents may take a variety of epistemic stances towards theories, including acceptance, use, and pursuit. However, it is recognized that this list is by no means exhausitve.

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It is postulated by Sarwar and Fraser that in addition to the already accepted epistemic stances that epistemic agents may take towards theories, scientificity is a unique and independent stance that agents can also take towards theories.1 In particular, if a theory satisfies the demarcation criteria employed by a particular agent, then that agent considers the theory to be scientific. If the theory does not satisfy the its demarcation criteria, then the theory is taken to be unscientific. If assessment is inconclusive, the theory may be taken as scientific, unscientific, or uncertain. Sarwar and Fraser argue that scientific communities take the stance of scientificity or unscientificity independent of whether those theories are accepted, unaccepted, used, unused, pursued, or unpursued. As such, scientificity is a distinct epistemic stance.

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