Mechanism of Question Acceptance

How do questions become accepted as legitimate topics of inquiry? What is the mechanism of question acceptance?

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In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by William Rawleigh in 2018. The question is currently accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by Scientonomy community.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 November 2018	The question became accepted accepted as a legitimate topic of scientonomic inquiry as a result of the acceptance of the respective suggested modification.	Yes

All Theories

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Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
The Law of Question Acceptance (Barseghyan-Levesley-2021)	A question becomes accepted only if all of its epistemic presuppositions are accepted and it is accepted that the question is answerable.	2021

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Accepted Theories

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Suggested Modifications

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Verdict	Verdict Rationale	Date Assessed
Sciento-2021-0002	Scientonomy	1 August 2021	Accept the law of question acceptance as a new scientonomic axiom, the question rejection theorem, and a number of questions for future research.	Open

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Related Topics

This question is a subquestion of Mechanism of Scientific Change. It has the following sub-topic(s):

• Role of Employed Methods in Question Acceptance