Modification:Sciento-2018-0010

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.

The modification was suggested to Scientonomy community by Hakob Barseghyan on 8 October 2018.1 The modification was accepted on 1 September 2019.

Preamble

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Modification

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.

Questions To Accept

• Scope of Scientonomy - Tracing Implicit and Explicit: Should observational scientonomy trace when a certain stance towards an epistemic element was taken explicitly or implicitly?

Verdict

The modification was accepted on 1 September 2019. The consensus concerning this modification emerged primarily off-line.^c1 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".^c2

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