Stasis Theory and Paleontology Discourse.¶
Northcut, K. M. (2007). Stasis Theory and Paleontology Discourse. The Writing Instructor.
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Primes¶
- Stasis
- Public policy. Many disagreements appear to be about evidence but are at the quality stasis (is this intervention legitimate?) or the jurisdictional stasis (whose authority is this?); the sense that a debate "won't resolve no matter how much data we collect" is a stasis-mismatch signature. Scientific controversy. A replication dispute can be conjectural (did the effect occur?), definitional (does this count as the effect?), or quality (was the procedure appropriate?), and identifying which stasis it is at predicts what evidence would actually move it.
This sourceApplies the stasis typology (conjectural vs. definitional vs. quality questions) to a scientific controversy — the Protoavis texensis fossil dispute — supporting the claim that identifying which stasis a replication/empirical dispute occupies predicts which evidence bears on it.
- Public policy. Many disagreements appear to be about evidence but are at the quality stasis (is this intervention legitimate?) or the jurisdictional stasis (whose authority is this?); the sense that a debate "won't resolve no matter how much data we collect" is a stasis-mismatch signature. Scientific controversy. A replication dispute can be conjectural (did the effect occur?), definitional (does this count as the effect?), or quality (was the procedure appropriate?), and identifying which stasis it is at predicts what evidence would actually move it.
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