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|Description=Science is a social enterprise, but Scientonomy focuses on the [[Scientific CommunityMosaic|scientific communitiesmosaic]] consist of individual scientistsaccepted [[Theory|theories]] and employed [[Method|methods]]. In their daily work, individual scientists rely on and formulate [[Theory|theories]] about the object of their research, and use [[Method|methods]] to appraise their theories. Both the theories they believe and the criteria they use to assess them may change over time. Historians Although historians of science have often focused on individual scientists, often those deemed great, like Galileo or Einstein, and the changes in their beliefs as they constructed and assessed theories. The , [[Scientific MosaicChange|changes to the scientific mosaicitself]] consists of those theories that have won [[Theory Acceptance|acceptance]] by a scientific community as a whole, and those methods generally [[Employed Method|employed]] in [[Theory Assessment Outcomes|theory assessment]]. The scientific mosaic of a community changes over time. Just as life depends on underlying physical and chemical processes, which are in turn constrained by their role as constituent processes of a living system, happen at the level of the individual scientist and that of the scientific community are interrelated in a complex fashion.   In principle, scientonomy might Scientonomy thus seeks to focus efforts on elucidating the mechanisms of scientific change either at the social level of the scientific community or at the level of rather than on the individual scientist.