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Question Is a Subtype of Epistemic Element (Rawleigh-2018) (view source)
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|Authors List=William Rawleigh
|Formulated Year=2018
|Disjoint Group=Main|Description=A study of the process of scientific change reveals many cases when a question that was considered legitimate in a certain time-period became illegitimate in another period. For example, the questions such as “what is the weight of phlogiston?” or “why does some matter gain mass as it loses phlogiston?” were accepted as legitimate topics of inquiry for the most part of the 18th century. Yet, once the phlogiston theory was rejected, these questions became illegitimate. Another examples is the question “what is the distance from the earth to the sphere of stars?” that was once considered legitimate by astronomers, but is no longer accepted.[[CiteRef::Rawleigh (2018)|p. 4]] Similarly, there are questions which are considered legitimate these days but weren't accepted even a few centuries ago. An example of this is the question “what’s the underlying mechanics of the evolution of species?” - a perfectly legitimate topic of biological research nowadays that would have been deemed illegitimate three hundred years ago.[[CiteRef::Rawleigh (2018)|p. 4]] These examples suggest that questions are part of the process of scientific changes. More specifically, they are a subtype of [[Epistemic Element|epistemic element]].
|Resource=Rawleigh (2018)
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