Difference between revisions of "Individual Level (Barseghyan-2015)"

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|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
 
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|Description=The individual level is defined by Hakob Barseghyan as an individual scientist who has her own set of ideas and beliefs about the world, and employs certain methods which might be different than the accepted methods of the time. H. Barseghyan also briefly mentions how changes in the individual level occur when an individual changes her beliefs and employs different rules than she has in the past. </ref>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)p <43>]]</ref>
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|Description=The individual level is defined by Hakob Barseghyan as an individual scientist who has her own set of ideas and beliefs about the world, and employs certain methods which might be different than the accepted methods of the time. H. Barseghyan also briefly mentions how changes in the individual level occur when an individual changes her beliefs and employs different rules than she has in the past. [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)p. 43]]
 
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|Prehistory=A contemporary influential individual in the field of scientific change is H. Barseghyan. He formulated the theory of scientific change which also includes the individual and social level. The axioms of these theory explain how theories become accepted, and how methods get employed. Barseghyan’s formulation is accepted by an entire community as the best available description of the process, which shows how influential an individual can be in a community.
 
In Barseghyan’s book, The Law of Scientific Change, he mentions the VPI projects which focused mostly on how the knowledge that the individuals possess contributes to the creation of community knowledge. Nickles’s 1989 paper shares the same belief and he concludes in his paper that it’s not correct to believe there exists community knowledge independent of individual knowledge. He further argues that what individuals knows about the surrounding world and their explanations about a phenomenon, are in fact what we would call a scientific community. </ref>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)pp <47>]]</ref>.
 
The different perspectives of the surrounding world coming from different individuals can lead to the creation of unique approaches at solving or interpreting a phenomenon. And thus, having an individual level in science is essential for science because their own accepted theories and employed methods can result in the discovery of new explanations for phenomenon, and thus providing a better description about the surrounding world.
 
 
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Revision as of 19:58, 3 December 2018

This is a definition of Individual Level that states "The level of the beliefs of the individual scientist about the world and the rules she employs in theory assessment."

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This definition of Individual Level was formulated by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015.1 It is currently accepted by Scientonomy community as the best available definition of the term.

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Scientonomy1 January 2016The definition became de facto accepted by the community at that time together with the whole theory of scientific change.Yes

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Individual Level (Barseghyan-2015) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is individual level? How should it be defined?

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The individual level is defined by Hakob Barseghyan as an individual scientist who has her own set of ideas and beliefs about the world, and employs certain methods which might be different than the accepted methods of the time. H. Barseghyan also briefly mentions how changes in the individual level occur when an individual changes her beliefs and employs different rules than she has in the past. 2

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References

  1. ^  Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
  2. ^ Barseghyan (2015)p. 43