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* How do normative propositions (e.g ethics) affects method employment? Or does it only affect method "use"?
* The Asynchronism of Method Employment theorem says that employment of methods is not always necessarily a result of the acceptance of new theories. But surely all methods (even concrete implementations of abstract requirements) are employed simultaneously with the acceptance of a descriptive proposition which states that that method is effective. Does this poses a challenge towards the Asynchronism of Method Employment theorem? (Mirka Loiselle)
* Are practical propositions normative theories, or some other entity? How do they change through time? How do they become accepted? How do they affect other elements of the mosaic; specifically, can they ever affect the method employment? (Hakob Barseghyan)
* Can we identify a case of inconclusive assessment apart from mosaic split? (Paul Patton)
* Are there really cases of necessary theory assessment, or is every case of theory assessment inconclusive to a degree? If there are, is there a way for us as historians to show decisively that a theory was necessarily accepted rather than accepted after inconclusive assessment? (Paul Patton)
* Are necessary mosaic splits really possible, or are all mosaic splits the result of inconclusive assessment? And if they are possible, can we ever as historians detect them? (Paul Patton)
* Given two geographically isolated communities with different sets of beliefs that then undergo change and end up with the same set of beliefs (without any inter-communication between the communities), do they become one community? (Jennifer Whyte, Hakob Barseghyan)
