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|Preamble=Tools and instruments, from a thermometer or a ruler to the Large Hadron Collider or the Hubble Space Telescope clearly play a central role in the process of scientific change. [[CiteRef::Patton (2019)]] However, but that the role of tools and instruments within scientonomy has not yet been defined . Existing roles available within scientonomyscientonomic theory do not seem appropriate. The question of whether or It does not seem plausible, for example, to treat tools and instruments can be objects as subjects of authority delegation has been raised. The relationship between This is because scientific data is itself a kind of theory, and therefore requires assessment under the employed method of the time. A tool or instrument is not capable of assessing its own data under the employed method, since that would require cognitive abilities, such as the ability to semantically understand propositions, which are still beyond the bounds of current artificial intelligence. [[CiteRef::Patton (2019)]] A new role for tools and instruments and within scientonomy thus needs to be defined. The new role posited has to do with the role of epistemic tools in the concrete requirements of an the employed method also need to be clarifiedof an epistemic agent.