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Community: A suggested modification is an attempt to convince a certain community to accept and/or reject certain theories.	Scientonomy
Summary: Provide a very short summary of the modification here. IMPORTANT: Please avoid any wiki markup, do not mention the authors, and do not add any references in this box.	Accept that epistemic stances of all types can be taken explicitly and/or implicitly and that epistemic elements of all types can be explicit and/or implicit.
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Preamble: Why is this modification necessary?	In section ''Explicit and Implicit'' of [[Barseghyan (2015)\|''The Laws of Scientific Change'']], a distinction is drawn between ''methods'' and ''methodologies'', where methods are understood as the actual – often tacit/implicit – expectations of a certain agent, while methodologies are always openly/explicitly stated by a certain epistemic agent as the right way of theory evaluation.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)\|pp. 53-54]] The analysis reveals that this characterization of methodologies as explicitly stated rules and methods as often implicitly employed rules is misleading. First, whether a rule has or hasn’t been explicitly stated has to do with contingent historical circumstances and says nothing about its ''propositional content''. Thus, the propositional content of the rule “astronomical data is acceptable only if it has been obtained by a healthy human eye” stays exactly the same regardless of whether, when, and by which epistemic agents it has or hasn’t been explicitly stated. Second, it is clear that all propositions can be both ''explicit'' and ''implicit''; that’s not what characterizes them. Descriptive or normative, theory or method – every epistemic element has the capacity of being explicitly stated as well as the capacity of being tacitly implied. The same holds for epistemic stances. For example, a theory or a method can be accepted both openly and tacitly. Similarly, normative propositions can be employed both implicitly and explicitly. This confirms that the distinction between explicit and implicit cannot be taken as grounds for differentiating distinct epistemic elements or distinct epistemic stances.
Modification: If necessary provide additional details concerning this modification. This text will precede the formal list of theories and questions to be accepted and rejected. If the four lists provide a comprehensive information about the nature of this modification, this field can be left empty. NOTE: There is no need to list all the theories here, since they will be printed automatically right after this.	Accept that: * Epistemic stances of all types can be taken explicitly and/or implicitly. * Epistemic elements of all types can be explicit and/or implicit.
Theories to be Accepted: Indicate all the theories that this modification suggests to become accepted. Please include all the descriptive and normative theories, as well as all the definitions, suggested by this modification.
Theories to be Rejected: Indicate all the theories that this modification suggests to be rejected. Please include all the descriptive and normative theories, as well as all the definitions, that will be rejected should this modification be approved.
Questions to be Accepted: Indicate all the questions that this modification suggests to become accepted as legitimate topics of inquiry.
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Verdict Rationale: What were the reasons of this verdict? List the main reasons.	The consensus concerning this modification emerged primarily off-line.<sup>[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2018-0010#comment-109\|c1]]</sup> It was agreed that this modification is to be accepted, as it "opens the way for any epistemic stance or element to be either implicit or explicit, with the arbiter for any given case being empirical evidence".<sup>[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2018-0010#comment-99\|c2]]</sup>
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