Modification:Sciento-2019-0013

Accept the existence of method hierarchies and the new definition of method hierarchy.

The modification was suggested to Scientonomy community by Hakob Barseghyan and Mathew Mercuri on 24 December 2019.1 The modification is currently being evaluated; a verdict is pending.

Preamble

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Modification

Theories To Accept

• Method Hierarchy (Mercuri-Barseghyan-2019): A set of methods is said to constitute a hierarchy iff theories that satisfy the requirements of methods that are higher in the hierarchy are preferred to theories that satisfy the requirements of methods that are lower in the hierarchy.

• Method Hierarchy Exists: There is such a thing as a method hierarchy.

Questions To Accept

• Conceptualizing Method Hierarchies: Should we conceive of a method hierarchy as being composed of individual employed methods/requirements, or should we think of it as constituting one composite method with a system of if-s and else-s, and-s and or-s

Questions Answered

This modification attempts to answer the following question(s):

• Method Hierarchy: What is method hierarchy? How should it be defined?
• Existence of Method Hierarchy: Does a method hierarchy exist?

Verdict

The modification is currently being evaluated; a verdict is pending.

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