Scholarly argumentation operates on atomic statements and concepts as fundamental units
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- Tags: #Synthesis Infrastructure
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- Philosophical accounts of synthesis in science emphasize that it is a form of argumentation, which operates on statements and concepts as fundamental units
- @harsDesigningScientificKnowledge2001 synthesized four major objectivist epistemological models of scientific knowledge from Philosophy of Science, including Popper @popperLogicScientificDiscovery1959, Nagel @nagelStructureScienceProblems1979, Dubin @dubinTheoryBuilding1978, and Bunge @bungePhilosophyScience1998, and demonstrated that they all model argumentation in terms of scientists building systems of scientific statements, which are composed of relationships between concepts.
- We see this also in the way that Scientists read strategically, not linearly specifically for these components. This might be an artifact of the current structure of the [[scholarly communication infrastructure]] though, since Most scholarly communication infrastructure operates on the document as the base unit
- Note: we need to work out whether Interpretivist epistemologies will have different implications; my initial instinct is no; the structure won’t change that much (although context might become far more important)
- A number of prominent models of alt. scholarly comm infrastructures for search and (sometimes machine, but also human) sensemaking of scholarly argumentation
- Overall vision is well cast by @deWaardProteinsFairytalesDirections2010 and @liddoContestedCollectiveIntelligence2012 to emphasize that we need discourse, not just knowledge graphs, but definitely not just papers!
- Thread of work on claims/statements as primary unit
- Claims in HCI @mccrickardMakingClaimsKnowledge2012
- Nanopublications - statements and their provenance as primary unit - @grothAnatomyNanopublication2010
- SWAN - @ciccareseSWANBiomedicalDiscourse2008 @clarkAlzforumSWANPresent2007
- Scholarly Ontologies Project and related work from Knowledge Media Institute focusing on claims/statements
- Thread of work pushing forward statements to emphasize distinction between claims and evidence
- Micropublications for claims and “data” (evidence) - @clarkMicropublicationsSemanticModel2014
- HypER for hypotheses and evidence @dewaardHypothesesEvidenceRelationships2009
- SEPIO for assertions and evidence @brushSEPIOSemanticModel2016
- @harsDesigningScientificKnowledge2001 articulates some good {{alias: example-of examples of}} the kinds of queries that are both crucial for synthesis and functionally impossible to answer in our current scholarly communication infrastructure, such as “What are unsolved problems in domain X? What solutions have been proposed for problem X? What extensions have been proposed? What theories incorporate concept X? What are alternative interpretations of concept X”?
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- Statements were a core building block of a model of scientific knowledge synthesized from four Positivist epistemological models of scientific knowledge from philosophy of science @popperLogicScientificDiscovery1959 @nagelStructureScienceProblems1979 @dubinTheoryBuilding1978 @bungePhilosophyScience1998 #Atomicity @harsDesigningScientificKnowledge2001
(p. 70)
- Concepts are a core building block of a model of scientific knowledge (p. 70) #📝 lit-notes #Atomicity @harsDesigningScientificKnowledge2001
- Four Positivist epistemological models of scientific knowledge from philosophy of science @popperLogicScientificDiscovery1959 @nagelStructureScienceProblems1979 @dubinTheoryBuilding1978 @bungePhilosophyScience1998 agree that scientists build theories as systems of scientific statements, which are composed of relationships between concepts (p. 70) #📝 lit-notes #Atomicity #compositionality @harsDesigningScientificKnowledge2001
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- Statements were a core building block of a model of scientific knowledge synthesized from four Positivist epistemological models of scientific knowledge from philosophy of science @popperLogicScientificDiscovery1959 @nagelStructureScienceProblems1979 @dubinTheoryBuilding1978 @bungePhilosophyScience1998 #Atomicity @harsDesigningScientificKnowledge2001
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