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This is an answer to the question Possibility of Scientonomy - The Argument from Social Construction that states "Science can be said to be socially constructed in several different senses (e.g. the contingency, nominalist, and reducibility theses). None of these preclude the possibility of scientonomy."

Response to the Argument from Social Construction was formulated by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015.1 It is currently accepted by Scientonomy community as the best available answer to the question.

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Scientonomy1 January 2016The theorem became de facto accepted by the community at that time together with the whole theory of scientific change.Yes

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Response to the Argument from Social Construction (Barseghyan-2015) is an attempt to answer the following question: How is scientonomy possible if science is a social construction?

See Possibility of Scientonomy - The Argument from Social Construction for more details.

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References

  1. ^  Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.