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|Description=When the classical philosophy of science finally came to terms with the fact that [[Method|methods]] of theory assessment do in fact change through time, the question became ''how'' exactly they change. Since circa 1980, explaining the process of transitions from one employed method to the next has been one of the most challenging tasks for any theory of scientific change. A proper answer to this key question helps to understand one of the key aspects of scientific change.

|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Change

|Formulated Year=2015

|Prehistory=A number of philosophers of science addressed the question of method employment before the inception of scientonomy. [[Thomas Kuhn]], [[Paul Feyerabend]], [[Dudley Shapere]], [[Larry Laudan]], and [[Ernan McMullin]] all suggested that our theories about the world shape our methods of theory evaluation.