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Imre Lakotos understood sociocultural influence on changes in scientific belief (which he referred to as “external” science) to be dependent on the methodology of the mosaic in question. However, if we define all sociocultural influences on theory appraisal to be “external” to science then those factors will exist outside of the Laws of Scientific Change, which currently is not understood to be the case.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 234]] Instead, we allow sociocultural factors to be elements of employed methods within scientific mosaics.

|Author=Hakob Barseghyan,

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