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Mechanism of Method Employment (view source)
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There have been many other attempts at explaining how methods of theory evaluation come to be employed by a community. Consider, for instance the reconstructions of Plato’s method performed by David Lindberg,[[CiteRef::Lindberg (2007)|pp. 37-38]] or the proposal of synchronous change in paradigm shifts by Thomas Kuhn.[[CiteRef::Kuhn (1962)]]
[[Barry Barnes]], [[David Bloor]], [[Bruno Latour]], [[Steve Woolgar]] and other have suggested that the methods of science are determined to a large degree by the underlying sociocultural factors.[[CiteRef::Latour and Woolgar (1979)]][[CiteRef::Barnes, Bloor, and Henry (1996)]]
[[Paul Feyerabend]] went as far as to argue that in many cases methods are chosen in an arbitrary fashion.[[CiteRef::Feyerabend (1975a)]]
