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  • ...ts with ''theories'', ''methods'', and ''questions'' as distinct epistemic elements. ...ith (a) actual scientific practice, in which questions seem to be distinct elements, and (b) the ontology implicit in the [[Main Page|Encyclopedia of Scientono
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  • |Question=How do ''questions'' become ''accepted'' as legitimate topics of inquiry? What is the ''mechanism'' of question accepta ...itimate at any given time. Kuhn, for example, recognized that the kinds of questions that can be asked by scientists changes with each paradigm shift, but decli
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  • ...ceptance'' is defined as "a question is said to be accepted if it is taken as a legitimate topic of inquiry". ...that a question can be ''accepted'' or ''unaccepted'' by epistemic agents as a legitimate topic of inquiry and provides a definition of ''question accep
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  • ...lation Text=A set of all epistemic elements accepted and/or employed by an epistemic agent. ...uture ontology of epistemic elements insofar as that ontology assumes that elements can be accepted and employed.
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  • ...mechanism question acceptance'' and ''indicators of question acceptance'' as legitimate topics of scientonomic inquiry. ...st cam establish that a certain question was in fact accepted by a certain epistemic agent at a certain time.
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  • |Inherited From=Epistemic Stances Towards Epistemic Elements ...n=What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards questions?
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  • |Title=The Status of Questions in the Ontology of Scientific Change ...emic communities come to accept certain questions as legitimate and others as illegitimate.
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  • ...osaic'' as a set of all epistemic elements accepted and/or employed by the epistemic agent. ...aking a descriptive claim about theories and methods which is not the same as simply defining these concepts. Thus, an ontology cannot be postulated thro
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  • ...ew scientonomic axiom, ''the question rejection theorem'', and a number of questions for future research. ...t law for questions and the compatibility corollary, and points to several questions for further research.
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  • ...f=a Canadian scientonomist, notable for his work on questions as epistemic elements and the mechanism of method employment
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  • ...pistemic elements with, theories and questions are the two basic epistemic elements where and each theory is an attempt to answer a certain question, theories ...of theory evaluation can be classified either as a theory (methodology) or as a method depending on whether it has or hasn’t been historically accepted
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  • |Term=Epistemic Element ...of scientific change needs to establish a basic ''ontology'' of epistemic elements that are part of the process of scientific change.
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  • ...[[CiteRef::Kuhn (1962a)]] [[Imre Lakatos]] described a set of propositions as fitting into a scientific ''research programme'';[[CiteRef::Lakatos (1978a) ...er Larry Laudan, methods and values should be included along with theories as part of the fabric of a community’s belief system.[[CiteRef::Laudan (1984
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  • ...ophy is the epistemic element. There are a number of important ontological questions that arise here: * What types of [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic agents]] can there be? I.e. can epistemic agents be communal, individual and/or artificial (instruments, AI)?
    8 KB (1,169 words) - 11:25, 13 February 2024
  • ...eferentially recursive. It argues that by formalizing mosaics semantically as natural language models for scientific communities, scientonomy can overcom
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  • ...and open new avenues of inquiry by inviting new perspectives on important questions. * How can the current taxonomy of epistemic stances be improved? Do epistemic agents accept, use, and pursue theories, or is there something else? Are th
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