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|Description=Communities may take several [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories|epistemic stances]] towards theories. Theories can be [[Theory Acceptance|accepted]] by a community as the best currently available description of the world. Even when they are not so accepted, they can be deemed [[Epistemic Stances - Acceptance Theory Use and Pursuit (Barseghyan-2015)|instrumentally useful]] for certain problems. They can be deemed promising and worthy of [[Theory Pursuit|pursuit]]. The question at issue here is that of which of these stances need a scientonomic theory account for. Ought it account only for accepted theories, or ought it also account for scientists decisions to pursue theories as worthy of further development, or their decisions to treat theories as instrumentally useful?

|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,

|Prehistory=There has been a long tradition In its most general sense, the key question at issue is that of confusing different stances that what ontological units a community can scientonomic theory ought to take towards a theoryas its subject matter. The prehistory of the descriptive topic of the [[Thomas Kuhn]], for example, used a number Ontology of equally vague words, including ''universally received'', ''embraced'', ''acknowledged'', and ''committed'' to describe the status of theories within scientific communities. Kuhn's theory Scientific Change|ontological units of scientific change dealt with frameworks that he referred to as ''paradigms'' [[CiteRef::Kuhn (1962)]] or later as ''disciplinary matrices''is discussed elsewhere.    Until a proper taxonomy The prehistory of concepts of the [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories|epistemic stances that communities might take towards theories]] was formulated the is likewise dealt with elsewhere. The normative question at issue could not be clearly framed, 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]].|History=|Current View=|Related Topics=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories, Ontology of Scientific Change, 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 TheoriesTheory Acceptance, Theory Pursuit,Theory Use