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|Preamble=Currently the only entity taken to be capable of bearing a mosaic in In scientonomy is a , [[Epistemic Agents - Communities (Barseghyan-2015)|communitycommunities]] have been taken as the primary focus of interest for understanding the process of scientific change. [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 43-52]]They are the only entity taken to be capable of bearing a mosaic. The currently accepted definition of [[Authority Delegation|authority delegation]] [[CiteRef::Overgaard and Loiselle (2016)]] takes it to be a relationship between communities. Yet, at the same time, Loiselle [[Epistemic Agent CiteRef::Loiselle (2017)]] has shown that an individual can be the subject of authority delegation and there seem to be many other instances, such as within individual scientific research groups [[CiteRef::Patton-(2019)|A new definition]] of epistemic agent has been proposed, where authority is delegated to an individual. Within the context of that the new proposed definition, the question of whether individuals[[Epistemic Agent|epistemic agent]], or tools and instruments can be epistemic agents requires an answerthere seems no good reason to reserve this status solely for communities.