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|Prehistory=There has been a long tradition of confusing different stances that a community can take towards a theory. [[Thomas Kuhn]], for example, used a number of equally vague words, including ''universally received'', ''embraced'', ''acknowledged'', and ''committed '' to describe the status of theories within scientific communities.Kuhn's theory of scientific change dealt with frameworks that he referred to as ''paradigms'' [[CiteRef::Kuhn (1962)]] or later as ''disciplinary matrices''.    Until a proper taxonomy of [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories|epistemic stances towards theories]] was formulated the question at issue could not be clearly framed|Related Topics=Scope of Scientonomy - Construction and Appraisal, Scope of Scientonomy - Descriptive and Normative, Scope of Scientonomy - Explicit and Implicit, Scope of Scientonomy - Individual and Social, Scope of Scientonomy - Time Fields and Scale, Epistemic Stances Towards Theories,