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Scientificity and The Law of Theory Demarcation

Scientonomy, 2018
The demarcation between science and non-science seems to play an important role in the process of scientific change, as theories regularly transition from being considered scientific to being considered unscientific and vice versa.
Ameer Sarwar, Patrick Thomas Fraser
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Redrafting the Ontology of Scientific Change

Scientonomy, 2018
Recent developments in theoretical scientonomy coupled with a reflection on the practice of the Encyclopedia of Scientonomy all suggest that the ontology of scientific change currently accepted in scientonomy has serious flaws.
Hakob Barseghyan
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A Compatibility Law and the Classification of Theory Change

Scientonomy, 2018
The current formulation of the zeroth law (the law of compatibility) is marred with a number of theoretical problems, which necessitate its reformulation.
Patrick Thomas Fraser, Ameer Sarwar
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The Status of Questions in the Ontology of Scientific Change

Scientonomy, 2018
The currently accepted scientonomic ontology includes two classes of epistemic elements – theories and methods. However, the ontology underlying the Encyclopedia of Scientonomy includes questions/topics as a basic element of its semantic structure ...
William Rawleigh
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Problems and Prospects with the Scientonomic Workflow

Scientonomy, 2019
While the scientonomic workflow guiding the development of a general theory of scientific change has been practiced for nearly four years, it has yet to be formally evaluated.
Jamie Shaw, Hakob Barseghyan
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Methods and Question Relevance

Scientonomy
This paper examines a new epistemic relation in scientonomy – the relevance of one question to another. I argue that it is the employed methods that often render particular questions epistemically relevant to others by stipulating conditions under which
Gaby Fieschi-Rose
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Conditional Authority Delegation

Scientonomy
While the current scientonomic definition of authority delegation implicitly presupposes that epistemic agents accept expert judgments unconditionally, this assumption fails to capture a wide range of historical and contemporary epistemic practices. The
Paul Patton, Landon See, Carlin Henikoff
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Accepting Massive Problems

Scientonomy, 2023
This paper explores the process of the assessment and eventual acceptance of the existence of dark matter by the Western astronomy community in the period between 1930s and 1980s.
Alessandra Castino
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Discipline Dynamics of Chymistry and Rejection of Alchemy

, 2023
This paper applies Patton and Al-Zayadi’s scientonomic framework for understanding disciplines to a case study of the development of the chemical discipline ("chymistry") from the 17th century through the early 18th century in Western Europe.
Friesen, Izzy, Patton, Paul
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The Status of Normative Propositions in the Theory of Scientific Change

Scientonomy, 2016
The scope of the Theory of Scientific Change (TSC) encompasses any and all changes that occur in a given scientific mosaic, the set of all methods employed and theories accepted at a given time by a given scientific community.
Zoe Sebastien
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