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|Topic Type=Definitional

|Description=''Scientific mosaic'' is one of the key concepts in current scientonomy. Thus, its proper definition is of great importance.

|Formulated Year=2015

|Prehistory=Although almost all of the great philosophers of science of the 20th century have described the history of science in terms of a changing, systematic collection of beliefs, there has never been a real consensus in the language used to describe such a collection. [[Thomas Kuhn]] used the word ''paradigm'' to talk of integrated collections of theories, methods, and values that were replaced during episodes of revolutionary scientific change.[[CiteRef::Bird (2011)]][[CiteRef::Kuhn (1962)]][[Imre Lakatos]] described a set of propositions as fitting into a scientific “research programme”[[CiteRef::Lakatos (1978a)]]; [[Larry Laudan]] used the concept of ''research tradition''.[[CiteRef::Matheson and Dallmann (2015)]][[CiteRef::Laudan (1984)]] Richard DeWitt talks of “worldviews” to describe the beliefs held by a scientific community at any given time.[[CiteRef::DeWitt (2010)|p. 7]]

While it is not included in the definition, it is understood that the bearer of a mosaic is a [[Scientific Community|scientific community]].[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. xi]] The reason for this omission is that there is currently no accepted definition of "scientific community".

|Related Topics=Scientific Change, Theory, Method, Mechanism of Scientific Change,

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