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|Question=What can an observational scientonomist ''infer'' about a theory's assessment outcome from the theory's acceptance/unacceptance?

|Description=Suppose an observational scientonomist tries to make sense of a certain historical transition – a certain instance of scientific change. Among other things, the observational scientonomist needs to establish the ''outcomes'' of theory assessments during that transition. In other words, she needs certain ''indicators'' that would tell her what the outcomes of theory assessment were. Here the question is how a theory's assessment outcome can be inferred by studying what happened to the theory in terms of its acceptance/unacceptance by the community.[[CiteRef::Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan (2017)|pp. 35-37]]

|Authors List=Paul Patton,