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|Question=How ought a scientonomic theory deal with the various stances that a community might take towards a theory? How ought it to classify those stances? Which stances towards a theory ought a scientonomic theory account for?

|Description=There has been a long tradition of confusing different Communities may take several [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories|epistemic stances that ]] towards theories. Theories can be [[Theory Acceptance|accepted]] by a community can take towards a theoryas the best currently available description of the world. KuhnEven when they are not so accepted, they can be deemed [[Theory Use|instrumentally useful]] for instance, used a number of equally vague words, including ''universally received'',''embraced'', ''acknowledged'', certain problems. They can be deemed promising and ''committed'', to describe the status worthy of theories within scientific communities.[[CiteRef::Kuhn (1970c)Theory Pursuit|pp. 10-13pursuit]] ''Acceptance'' too has had a plethora . The question at issue here is that of different meanings. Once the taxonomy which of epistemic these stances is clarifiedneed a scientonomic theory account for. Ought it account only for accepted theories, or ought it is important also account for scientists decisions to identify stances for which changes ''ought pursue theories as worthy of further development, or their decisions to be'' traced and explained by scientonomy.treat theories as instrumentally useful?

|Prehistory=In its most general sense, the key question at issue is that of what ontological units a scientonomic theory ought to take as its subject matter. The prehistory of the descriptive topic of the [[Ontology of Scientific Change|ontological units of scientific change]] is discussed elsewhere. The prehistory of concepts of the [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories|epistemic stances that communities might take towards theories]] is likewise dealt with elsewhere. The normative question at issue, in its current form, arises specifically within the context of the ontology assumed by the current Barseghyan [[Theory of Scientific Change|theory of scientific change]], and the definitions of its key concepts such as the [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]], [[Theory Acceptance|theory acceptance]], [[Theory Pursuit|theory pursuit]], and [[Theory Use|theory use]].|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, Ontology of Scientific Change, Theory Acceptance, Theory Use, Theory Pursuit,