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|Question=What is the status of '''questions''' ('''problems''', '''topics''') in the mosaic? Are questions (problems, topics) separate entities, or can they be reduced to theories?
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|Description=The Questions/topics are one of several key categories of our encyclopedia (along with theories and modifications). Are questions part of the process of scientific change, or are they merely a useful instrument for organizing scientonomic data? It seems apparent that the relevance of a question (problem/topic may be different in different time periods and different mosaic. For instance, while the question of attributed of phlogiston would be a legitimate research question in the mid-18th century, it is no longer legitimate in the contemporary chemistry. This seems to suggest that questions are not merely a useful instrument for storing and presenting scientonomic data, topic) changes with but are actually part of the mosaicprocess of scientific change. It Thus, it is important to identify what status questions have in the mosaic, i.e. whether or not they are their own entities, and or whether or not they can be treated as are expressible through theories.
|Parent Topic=Ontology of Scientific Change
|Authors List=Nicholas Overgaard, Hakob Barseghyan,

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