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  • Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Scientificity Acceptance Use and Pursuit (Sarwar-Fraser-2018)
    * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Scientificity (Sarwar-Fraser-2018)]] * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)]]
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  • Halvorson (2012)
    |Title=What Scientific Theories Could not be ...icular, this view equates theories that are distinct, and it distinguishes theories that are equivalent. Furthermore, the semantic view lacks the resources to
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  • Theory Acceptance without Sufficient Reason
    ...accepted without a sufficient reason, i.e. in the cases of circularity or theories without a reason? ...ut another theory as a reason. In cases of circular reasoning, two or more theories seem to be reasons for one another, without an independent reason for accep
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  • Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Acceptance Use and Pursuit (Barseghyan-2015)
    * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)]] * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Pursuit (Barseghyan-2015)]]
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  • Ripple Effect of Method Rejection
    ...n epistemic communities cease to employ their methods, what happens to the theories previously accepted by the aforementioned methods? ...er theories. Is this indeed the case when the methods used to assess those theories are no longer employed?
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  • The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)
    |Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Theories |Title=The First Law for Theories
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  • The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015) is Tautological (Pandey-2023)
    |Topic=Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015) |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015)
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  • The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023) is Tautological (Pandey-2023)
    |Topic=Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023) |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)
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  • Method Hierarchy (Mercuri-Barseghyan-2019)
    ...requirements of methods that are higher in the hierarchy are preferred to theories that satisfy the requirements of methods that are lower in the hierarchy. ...archy. If such a theory is not found, the agent is then prepared to accept theories that satisfy even the even less stringent requirements of the third method
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  • Necessary Descriptive Theories
    ...riptive theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What descriptive theories, is any, are ''necessary'' for the process of scientific change to occur? |Question Title=Necessary Descriptive Theories
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  • Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)
    |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023) |Question=Is the first law for theories suggested by Barseghyan and Pandey in 2023 a tautology?
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  • Acceptance and Compatibility Criteria
    #REDIRECT [[Hierarchy of theories]]
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  • Winther (2016)
    |Title=The Structure of Scientific Theories successes, partly as a result of the pervasiveness of scientific theories.
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  • Descriptive Theory Exists
    ..., many theories attempt to describe something. Thus, there are descriptive theories.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 5]] |Acceptance Indicators=The existence of descriptive theories became accepted together with the acceptance of the rest of the original TS
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  • Necessary Normative Theories
    ...normative theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What normative theories, if any, are ''necessary'' for the process of scientific change to occur? |Question Title=Necessary Normative Theories
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  • Applicability of Scientonomy to Theories as Models
    |Question=Is the theory of scientific change applicable to theories construed as sets of models, or in ways that reject their purely formal cha ...f scientific change compatible with these more recent and broader views of theories?
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  • Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015)
    |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015) |Question=Is the first law for theories suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology?
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  • Scope of Scientonomy - Social (Barseghyan-2015)
    ...tonomy that it should explain changes in the scientific mosaic of accepted theories and employed methods, which are changes at the level of the scientific comm ...instein, and the changes in their beliefs as they constructed and assessed theories, [[Scientific Change|changes to the scientific mosaic itself]] happen at th
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  • Status of Impossible Abstract Requirements
    ...e met? What do we do when we would like to keep certain theories but those theories are left in limbo? ...know they are being operated on. Surely we do not outright reject surgical theories on the basis they cannot be tested in this way? Do we develop some alternat
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  • Theory Displacement
    ...tion=Is it conceivable that, following the rejection of a method, that any theories which satisfied its requirements also would become rejected, seeing as how ...eories that became accepted due to it? What does a community do with these theories? Do they remain accepted? Are they assessed by another method?
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  • Epistemic Stances Towards Normative Theories
    ...es of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards normative theories? |Question Title=Epistemic Stances Towards Normative Theories
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  • Existence of Model
    ...d ''theory'' and ''proposition'' as synonyms. In the scientonomic context, theories are considered fundamental elements of a mosaic. This leaves the question o
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  • Core Question (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)
    ...establish the boundaries of a discipline by indicating which questions and theories are included. For example, the question 'how did living things originate as
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  • Theory Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Reason2
    ...scenario when a theory can no longer remain in the mosaic, i.e. when other theories which are incompatible with that theory become accepted.</blockquote>
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  • Mirkin (2018)
    ...em to exhibit the same scientonomic patterns of change typical of accepted theories therein. Thus, I suggest that propositional technological knowledge can be
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  • Theory vs. Method Compatibility
    |Question=What is the relationship between the Compatibility Criteria for theories and for methods within the same Mosaic? ...th each other. However, it is not clear whether compatibility for [[Theory|theories]], and compatibility criteria for [[Method|methods]], must be the same or s
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  • Mechanism of Error Rejection
    ...r theory or theories. The question is: what are these erroneously accepted theories replaced by? For example, astronomical databases trivially reject inaccurat
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  • Question Can Presuppose Theories (Barseghyan-Levesley-2019)
    |Title=Question Can Presuppose Theories |Formulation Text=A [[Question|question]] can presuppose [[Theory|theories]].
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  • Barseghyan (2015)
    ...? Are there any general laws that govern this process, or is the choice of theories and methods completely arbitrary and random?
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  • Theory Acceptance (Sebastien-2016)
    ...tempt to provide descriptions of their respective objects, while normative theories attempt to prescribe a certain object, the latter being understood as a cer
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  • Scope of Scientonomy - Acceptance Use and Pursuit
    ...sue theories as worthy of further development, or their decisions to treat theories as instrumentally useful? ...ces Towards Theories|epistemic stances that communities might take towards theories]] is likewise dealt with elsewhere. The normative question at issue, in its
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  • Savage (Ed.) (1990)
    |Title=Scientific Theories
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  • Frigg (2006)
    |Title=Scientific Representation and the Semantic View of Theories view of theories, which is the currently most widely accepted account of theories and models, provides us with adequate answers to these questions. After hav
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  • Status of Reasons
    ...of the status of reasons. Are reasons theories? Are reasons theories about theories? Are they components of scientific mosaics?
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  • Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Scientificity (Sarwar-Fraser-2018)
    |Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories ...ed epistemic stances, the stance of ''scientificity'' can be taken towards theories.[[CiteRef::Sarwar and Fraser (2018)]]
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  • Necessary Theories
    |Question=Are there theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? |Question Title=Necessary Theories
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  • The First Law for Norms (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)
    |Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Normative Theories |Alternate Titles=The Law of Scientific Inertia for Normative Theories
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  • Theory Exists
    |Description=Theories are part of the process of scientific change. |Acceptance Indicators=The existence of theories became accepted together with the acceptance of the original theory of scie
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  • Theory Pursuit
    |Description=By reviewing the history of science, one can find that not all theories that interested scientists were accepted. For example, many physicists are ...s only, it became increasingly important to distinguish different types of theories in terms of their acceptance status in the scientific community [[CiteRef::
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  • Theory Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Reason1
    ...can only become rejected when it is replaced by an incompatible theory or theories.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 167-172]] [[CiteRef::Fraser and Sarwar (20
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  • Discipline (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)
    ...ttempt to answer a certain question, and each question presupposes certain theories. Because of such hierarchical relations, it is possible to characterize a d A set, as such, can't be part of a scientific mosaic consisting of theories and questions. We, therefore, take a discipline to be defined by a [[Deline
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  • Theories Shaping Core Questions
    |Question=How do theories within a discipline shape and change the core questions of the disciplines? ...olutionary theory.[[CiteRef::Ereshefsky (2017)]] Thus, the question of how theories within a discipline shape and change core questions of the discipline is an
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  • Matheson and Dallmann (2015)
    |Title=Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality
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  • Laudan, Laudan, and Donovan (1988)
    |Title=Testing Theories of Scientific Change ...tain claims emerge unscathed - the existence and importance of large-scale theories (guiding assumptions) in the physical sciences for example. Others, such as
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  • Nola and Sankey (Eds.) (2000)
    |Title=After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method
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  • Resolution to the Paradox of Normative Propositions (Sebastien-2016)
    ...clear that employed methods don't necessarily follow from ''all'' accepted theories, but only from ''some''. ...eghyan-2015)|the third law]], employed methods are deducible from accepted theories, including methodologies;
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  • Suppe (Ed.) (1974)
    |Title=The Structure of Scientific Theories
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  • Core Theory
    ...others. As the concept of ''core theory'' intends to capture these central theories of a discipline, it is helpful to have a proper definition of the term.
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  • Technological Theory
    |Plural Capitalized=Technological Theories |Plural Lowercase=technological theories
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  • Synchronism of Method Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Reason1
    ...od follows. Therefore, an old method can be rejected only when some of the theories from which it follows are also rejected.</blockquote>
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