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Accept that the discussions concerning a suggested modification are to be published once a communal verdict is available. The discussions are to be published in the journal as special commentary articles co-authored by all participants of the discussion or in special edited collections. +
Accept that the commentators of suggested modifications are allowed to suggest reformulations of the original formulations. Also accept that, by default, the new formulation should bear the original author’s name, unless the author decides to give credit to those who significantly contributed to the new reformulation. This should be decided collegially by the author, the commentators, and the editors on a case-by-case basis. +
Accept that an annual book prize is to be offered for extensive participation on the encyclopedia. The winner(s) are to be decided by the encyclopedia editors. +
Accept that star-ratings are to be introduced for commentators who comment on suggested modifications on the encyclopedia. +
Accept that the encyclopedia editors are to be granted official housekeeping rights to handle the ripple effects. Also accept that if the additional required changes are implicit in the suggested modification, the editors should create and alter encyclopedia pages to ensure that the accepted body of scientonomic knowledge is properly documented; if it is conceivable to accept the modification without accepting the ripple effect change in question, the editors should register these changes as new suggested modifications so that the community can discuss and evaluate them in an orderly fashion. +
Accept that the verdict on suggested modifications is to be decided by a communal vote that will follow the discussion period. Have a communal discussion and decide as to what percentage of votes it should take for a modification to be accepted - a simple majority (50% +1), or supermajority of three fifths (60%), two thirds (67%), or three quarters (75%). Also discuss to decide as to how long the discussion period and the voting period should be. +
Accept that a countdown mechanism is to be introduced, where a modification is accepted by default if there are no objections within a 90-day period following its publication. +
Accept the definition of implication as a logical transition from one theory to another. +
Accept the new definitions of ''sufficient reason'', ''reason'', ''support'', and ''normative inference''. +
Accept the sufficient reason theorem and its deduction from the definition of ''sufficient reason'' and the ''second law''. +
Accept that the phenomenological claims of classical physics are still accepted as the best available descriptions of their respective observable phenomena. +
Accept the existence of method hierarchies and the new definition of ''method hierarchy'' as a set of methods where 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. Also accept the question of ''conceptualizing method hierarchies''. +
Accept the new definition of ''epistemic agent'' as an agent capable of taking epistemic stances towards epistemic elements. +
Accept that there are two types of epistemic agents – individual and communal. Also accept the question of applicability of the laws of scientific change to individuals as a legitimate topic of scientonomic inquiry. +
Accept the definition of ''epistemic tool'', stating that a physical object or system is an epistemic tool for an epistemic agent, when there is a procedure by which the tool can provide an acceptable source of knowledge for answering some question under the employed method of that agent. +
Accept the definitions of ''authority delegation'', and its subtypes, that generalize the currently accepted definitions to apply to all epistemic agents, rather than only communities. +
Accept that the relationship of ''tool reliance'' can obtain between epistemic agents and epistemic tools. Also accept the definition of tool reliance, which states that an epistemic agent is said to rely on an epistemic tool when there is a procedure through which the tool can provide an acceptable source of knowledge for answering some question under the employed method of that agent. +
Accept the definitions of ''logical presupposition'' and ''epistemic presupposition''. +
Accept ''the law of question acceptance'' as a new scientonomic axiom, ''the question rejection theorem'', and a number of questions for future research. +
Accept the definition of ''error'', stating that an epistemic agent is said to commit an error if the agent accepts a theory that should not have been accepted given that agent’s employed method. +
