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|Formulation Text=The process of theory change is not necessarily deterministic: there may be cases when both a theory's acceptance and its unacceptance are equally possible.

|Formulation File=Underdetermined-theory-change-box-only.jpg

|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,

|Formulated Year=2015

|Description=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 at the time might be vague (e.g. Aristotelian requirements of "intuition schooled by experience").[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 199-200]]

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