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|History=The term ''scientific mosaic'' was coined by [[Hakob Barseghyan|Barseghyan]] in 2012 within the context of the [[The Theory of Scientific Change]] (TSC). It was suggested at the outset that a scientific mosaic should be understood as a collection of ''changeable'' [[Theory|theories]] and [[Method|methods]]. The mosaic metaphor was chosen because the tiles of a mosaic may be tightly adjusted, or their may be a considerable gap between them. In scientific mosaics there may be considerable gaps, such as that between general relativity and quantum mechanics, despite the fact that both are accepted parts of the mosaic.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)| p. 5]]
The [[Scientific Mosaic (Barseghyan-2015)|initial notion of ''scientific mosaic'']] worked well with [[Epistemic Elements - Theories and Methods (Barseghyan-2015)|the original ontology of epistemic elements]] suggested by Barseghyan in [[Barseghyan (2015)|''The Laws of Scientific Change'']] as well as [[Epistemic Elements - Theories and Methods (Sebastien-2017)|the modified ontology]] suggested by [[Zoe Sebastien|Sebastien]] in [[Sebastien (2016)|"The Status of Normative Propositions in the Theory of Scientific Change"]], as since in both ontologies included only [[Theory Is a Subtype of Epistemic Element (Barseghyan-2015)|theories ]] and [[Method Is a Subtype of Epistemic Element (Barseghyan-2015)|methods as ]] are the only two fundamental types of epistemic elements.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)]][[CiteRef::Sebastien (2016)]]
With the acceptance of [[William Rawleigh|Rawleigh]]'s [[Epistemic Elements - Theories Methods and Questions (Rawleigh-2018)|new ontology of epistemic elements]] which added [[Question|questions]] as a new fundamental epistemic element, it became apparent that the definition of scientific mosaic should be adjusted to include questions.[[CiteRef::Rawleigh (2018)]] [[Scientific Mosaic (Barseghyan-2018)|One such definition]] was suggested by Barseghyan in his [[Barseghyan (2018)|"Redrafting the Ontology of Scientific Change"]].[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2018)]] The new definition became [[Modification:Sciento-2018-0009|became accepted]] in 2020. As this definition does not refer to any epistemic elements explicitly, it is in principle compatible with any future ontology insofar as that ontology involves the notions of ''acceptance'' and ''employment''.
