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|Preamble=The issue of scientific error was first raised as an open question within the scientonomic community by [[Rejection of Data| Maxim Mirkin and Sinan Karamehmetoglu in 2018]]. The concept of error has been used in many different ways by historians and philosophers of science, and it was necessary to distinguish the sense of error that interests us scientonomically. An absolute sense of error is one in which past science is judged from a modern perspective, in which, for example, belief in phlogiston as the basis of combustion might be judged as an error by a modern chemist. This absolute sense of error was not the one that interested us, since we do not believe it is possible, or useful for scientonomic purposes, to take up an absolute point of view. The sense of error we are interested in is one that can be judged from a [[Epistemic Agent| historical actor's]] perspective in accordance with the [[Method| method]][[Norm Employment| employed]] by the actor at the time. Such a definition was necessary to [[Rejection of Data| resolve a controversy]] about whether cases of scientific error violated accepted scientonomic principles .[[CiteRef::Machado-Marques and Patton (2021)]].