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|Description='''Scientonomy''' is defined as an academic discipline that aims to describe and explain the process of [[Scientific Change|scientific change]]. It consists While still very much in the process of inception, it is conceived to have two major branches: - ''theoretical scientonomy'' and ''observational scientonomy''. Theoretical scientonomy attempts to uncover the axioms and theorems that guide the process of scientific change. Observational scientonomy attempts to trace and explain historical and contemporary instances of scientific change.

The term scientonomy refers to the newly emerging ''the science of science''. If science is considered the systematic study of the natural universe, then the science of science is the systematic study of the social and cognitive processes that scientists use to undertake this study, as evidenced by what they write and say. The It is generally accepted nowadays that the body of theories accepted by a scientific community, and the methods employed to evaluate them, change over time. Scientonomy is As the descriptive empirical scientific study of this process of scientific change, and is scientonomy aims at providing a new approach to developing a naturalistic account of how individuals and groups communities acquire knowledge. It differs from other approachesrelated fields of inquiry, such as history of science or the sociology of scientific knowledge, in that it maintains that the process of scientific change, despite its varied guises, is governed by fixed exhibits certain general lawspatterns. It posits a set attempt to study and document those patterns by giving them precise formulations. As in any other field of [[The Theory empirical science, the findings of Scientific Change|axiomatic laws]] and definitions, from which theorems can be deduced. These laws scientonomy are inevitably fallible and definitions are open to modification by the scientonomic community in the light of new arguments and evidence.  The basis for the new this newly emerging field is Barsegyhan's [[The Theory of Scientific Change|theory of scientific change]] as propounded in his 2015 book, ''The Laws of Scientific Change''.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)]] It builds on the ideas of Kuhn, Lakatos, Laudan, and others, all of which can be considered scientonomic proto-theoriesprecursors of scientonomy. The field of scientonomy, given its distinctive concern for both general theory and the explanation of historical particulars has two branches. First,it has a theoretical branch that attempts to uncover the general mechanism of scientific change. Secondly, it has an observational branch that attempts to trace and explain individual changes in the mosaic of theories accepted by a scientific community.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 72-80]]