Resolving Conceptual Conflicts through Voting

Scientific activities strongly depend on concepts and classifications to represent the world in an orderly workable manner. This creates a trade-off. On one hand, it is important leave space for conceptual classificatory criticism. other agreement which use, often crucial communication integration of research ideas. In this paper, we show that trade-off can sometimes best be resolved through governance, scientific institutions set collective standard, voting reasonable way implement governance. Voting means aggregate among conflicting values, preferences priorities underpin or debates, all while signaling ongoing disagreement. We also discuss how legitimacy process its outcome ensured.