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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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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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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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Scientonomy, 2016 In this paper, we introduce a new concept to the field of scientonomy, that of authority delegation. Authority delegation is, in essence, a type of relation between distinct scientific communities whereby one community both recognizes another as an ...
Nicholas Overgaard, Mirka Loiselle
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A Taxonomy for the Social Agents of Scientific Change
Scientonomy, 2017 Although we accept that a scientific mosaic is a set of theories and methods accepted and employed by a scientific community, scientific community currently lacks a proper definition in scientonomy.
Nicholas Overgaard
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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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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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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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Scientonomy, 2017 The current formulation of the second law is flawed since it does not specify the causal relations between the outcomes of theory assessment and the actual acceptance/unacceptance of a theory; it merely tells us that a theory was assessed by the method ...
Paul Patton +2 more
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Multiple Authority Delegation in Art Authentication
Scientonomy, 2017 In this paper, I expand upon the research on authority delegation begun by Overgaard and myself in our 2016 paper Authority Delegation. I argue that singular authority delegation – in which a community delegates authority over a given topic to a single ...
Mirka Loiselle
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