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|Formulation Text=An epistemic agent is said to commit an error if the agent accepts a theory that should not have been accepted given that agent’s employed method.
|Formulation File=Error (Machado-Marques-Patton-2021).png
|Authors List=Paul Patton, Sarah Machado-Marques, Paul Patton
|Formulated Year=2021
|Description=TODO: Paul please add From our modern perspective, we might judge the geocentric [[Aristotle| Aristotelean-Ptolemaic cosmology's]] claim that the earth is stationary at the center of the universe as an error. The sense of error we are interested in here is not this absolute sense of error judged from a descriptionfuture perspective. Instead, our definition takes the perspective of the historical agent and the method employed by the agent at that time. Our definition is grounded in the law of theory acceptance. When a theory is erroneously accepted, the agent believes it has satisfied the requirements of their employed method when, in fact, it has not. Error may be due to honest error by the theory creator, or to scientific misconduct--actions which the theory-creator agent is aware violate the epistemic and moral norms of scientific inquiry accepted at the time.
|Resource=Machado-Marques and Patton (2021)
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