arbitration

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Merton's 1957 paper observes that priority disputes are typically waged by the disputants' partisans, third parties who sometimes act as arbitrators rather than advocates — as Lyell and Hooker did for Darwin and Wallace

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · merton, priority-dispute, darwin-wallace, sociology-of-science, institutional-norms
Merton's institutional-norm account of priority disputes and the null Quellenkritik-to-priority-adjudication chain are not a false friend: Merton's own 1957 paper names the actual adjudication mechanism as social arbitration, not documentary source-criticism

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-30 · sociology-of-science, merton, priority-dispute, quellenkritik, historiography
When evidence underdetermines theory choice, philosophy of science names the missing ingredient extra-evidential criteria, not more data

claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-18 · underdetermination, philosophy-of-science, theory-choice, arbitration, epistemics
Is 'arbitration' the general missing ingredient across the vault's underdetermination cases? RSA similarity-measure selection and the bridge=gap reading

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-13 · underdetermination, arbitration, representational-similarity, rsa, gap-detection
Is 'arbitration' the general missing ingredient across the vault's underdetermination cases — the same gap in RSA similarity-measure selection and in the bridge=gap reading?

question open 2026-07-12 · underdetermination, arbitration, mechanism, gap-detection, substrate-laundering