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|Question=What is '''mutual authority delegation'''? How should it be ''defined''?
|Topic Type=Definitional
|Description=Mutual authority delegation is defined as the mutual acknowledgement between two separate communities A and B as experts of their own respective fields, and so accepts what each other has accepted within their own discipline.[[CiteRef::Overgaard and Loiselle (2016)]] Identifying this relationship between two smaller scientific communities can allow the elucidation of overarching scientific communities and their mosaics. This interaction is by no means trivial, as it seems to explain the existence of and the coherence between sub-communities, and how different scientific communities have developed off each other’s work. An example of mutual authority delegation is the relationship between physicists and biologists. Physicists accept that biologists are the experts in the field of life sciences, and likewise, biologists accept that physicists are the experts in physical sciences.[[CiteRef::Overgaard and Loiselle (2016)]] This ensures that there won’t be contradictory theories between their mosaics.
|Parent Topic=Authority Delegation
|Authors List=Nicholas Overgaard, Mirka Loiselle,
|Formulated Year=2016
|Prehistory=Émile Durkheim, in his The Division of Labour in Society (1893), introduced the concepts of mechanical and organic solidarity in a society. On one hand, mechanical solidarity describes a society where all members function in an identical manner. On the contrary, organic solidarity describes a society where specialized sub-communities have been formed to maximize social harmony and work together towards a common goal[[CiteRef::Carls (2016)]]. Authority delegation is much like the latter, where specialized communities have a mutualistic relationship. Another example can be found in cognitive science. Specialized parts within a system working together to achieve a specific output in a cognitive theory called distributed cognition. Similar concepts can be found in many other disciplines.
|History=Mutual authority delegation was officially accepted by the scientonomic community in September 2016, after reviewing the article published in Scientonomy by Nicholas Overgaard and Mirka Loiselle, titled Authority Delegation (2016).
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