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|Question=Can the epistemic stance of ''scientificity'' be taken towards ''methods''? Can there be unscientific or pseudoscientific methods?
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|Description=Scientific mosaics consist of theories, methods, and questions.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)]][[CiteRef::Sebastien (2016)]][[CiteRef::Rawleigh (2018)]] Sarwar and Fraser have argued that an independent stance, called ''scientificity'', can be taken towards ''theories'', namely that epistemic agents can consider a given theory to be as scientific or unscientific independent of the agent's any other stances of ''acceptance'', ''use'', and ''pursuit''an agent may take.[[CiteRef::Sarwar and Fraser (2018)]] The question, likewisethen, can be asked arises whether epistemic agents can take the stance of scientificity towards methods. Do they regard certain methods as scientific but do not employ them? Are some methods further developed by epistemic agenst agents even though these methods are not, at the time of development, considered scientific? Whether or not, and if so, how, the stance of scientificity is taken towards methods is an important scientonomic topic of scientonomic inquiry, because methods form an integral part of the scientific mosaic.
|Parent Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Methods
|Authors List=Ameer Sarwar, Patrick Fraser,
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