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|Formulation Text=The underdetermined process of theory change theorum (Barseghyan-2015)]] is an attempt to answer the following questionnot necessarily deterministic: Is the process of ''scientific changethere may be cases when both a theory'' a strictly deterministic process?s acceptance and its unacceptance are equally possible.

|Topic=Determinism vs . Underdeterminism in Scientific Change

|Description======Underdetermined theory change=====The process of [[Theory Acceptance|theory assessment]] under the TSC is underdetermined for two reasons. First, only [[Theory|theories]] that are constructed are available for assessment. Whether or not a theory is ever constructed is, at least partly a matter of creativity, and is therefore outside the scope of the TSC. Second, it is at least theoretically possible that a process of theory assessment will be inconclusive. This might be because the requirements of the method employed method of at the time is might be vague, or because it involves multiple criteria, only some (e.g. Aristotelian requirements of which have been met "intuition schooled by experience").[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)| p. 199-200]].[[File:{{PrintDiagramFile|diagram file=Underdetermined-theory-change.jpg|center|500px]]}}

|Acceptance Indicators=The law theorem became ''de facto'' accepted by the community at the time together with the whole [[The Theory of Scientific Change|theory of scientific change]].