Theory Assessment Outcomes (Barseghyan-2015)

This is an answer to the question Theory Assessment Outcomes that states "The possible outcomes of theory assessment are accept, not accept, and inconclusive."

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This version of Theory Assessment Outcomes was formulated by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015.1

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Acceptance Record

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 January 2016	The proposition became de facto accepted by the community at that time together with the whole theory of scientific change.	No	29 November 2017	The taxonomy became rejected as a result of the acceptance of the new taxonomy by Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan. For details, refer to the modification.

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Verdict	Verdict Rationale	Date Assessed
Sciento-2017-0004	Scientonomy	5 February 2017	Accept the reformulation of the second law which explicitly links theory assessment outcomes with theory acceptance/unacceptance. To that end, accept three new definitions for theory assessment outcomes (satisfied, not satisfied, and inconclusive) as well as the new ontology of theory assessment outcomes, and accept the new definition of employed method.	Accepted	The new formulation of the law became accepted as a result of a communal consensus. It was noted by the commentators that the "modification provides a much improved formulation of the 2nd law".c1 It was noted that the new formulation "decouples the method from acceptance outcomes" and "is needed to avoid a contradiction for cases where assessment by the method is inconclusive, but the theory is accepted".c2 It was agreed that the new law eliminates two of the major flaws of the previous formulation. First, it clearly states the relations between different assessment outcomes and the actual theory acceptance/unacceptance. Second, it clearly forbids certain conceivable courses of events and, thus, doesn't sounds like a tautology.c3	29 November 2017

Question Answered

Theory Assessment Outcomes (Barseghyan-2015) is an attempt to answer the following question: What outcomes can possibly obtain as a result of an assessment of a theory by a method? What is the complete list of theory assessment outcomes?

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