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The Status of Holism and Ripple Effect (view source)
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|Question=There appear to be cases where Is it the case that changes in one of the elements of a mosaic can have a change in definition may "ripple certain changes in our synthetic propositions; are those changes subject to effect" on the rest of the same principles as scientific changemosaic?
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|Description=As an element of a mosaic undergoes modification, if we take a holistic approach to scientonomy, it seems respectively that other elements that are dependent elements should on this element can also undergo change too. Our concern For instance, there appear to be cases where a change in the ''definition'' of a certain concept may have a ripple effect on other accepted theories which use that concept. The question is whether this there is such a thing as "ripple effect will follow " and, if so, whether these "ripple" changes exhibit the same principles patterns as other instances of scientific change ? For example, suppose a community accepts a theory T<sub>1</sub> which describes the set of planets as regular theoriesMercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and theory P holds that all planets revolve in ellipses. Now suppose a theory T<sub>2</sub>, describing the set of planets as that of T<sub>1</sub> and also including Neptune, replaces T<sub>1</sub>. FurthermoreWhile it is clear that theory T has undergone a scientific change, these changes are largely dependent on our can the same be said of theory P? Would considering the change in reference of meaning theory P to be a scientific change as described by the [[Theory Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015)|Theory Rejection Theorem]] be a violation of the laws of scientific change? The extent and consequences of this alleged holism have yet to be considered in scientonomy. Our concern is the role of this ripple effect in scientific change and whether we interpret or not it as sense or referencewarrants change in our current conceptions.|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Change
|Authors List=Paul Patton, Hakob Barseghyan, Liron Cohen, Calahan Janik-Jones,
|Formulated Year=2018
|Academic Events=Scientonomy Seminar 2018,
|Related Topics=Mechanism of Theory Rejection, Mechanism of Theory Pursuit, Mechanism of Scientific Change,|Page Status=StubNeeds Editing|Editor Notes=Needs expanded description
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|Accepted From Day=15
|Accepted From Approximate=No
|Acceptance Indicators=It was acknowledged as an open question by the [[Scientonomy Seminar 2018]].
|Still Accepted=Yes
|Accepted Until Approximate=No
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