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|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,

|Current ViewPrehistory=|History=CurrentlyAccording to [[Employed Method (Barseghyan-2015)|the original scientonomic definition of the term]], suggested in 2015 and accepted in 2016, a method was said to be employed by a community if the community only accepted those theories whose acceptance was permitted by the method.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 53]] Thus, originally ''employed methodemployment'' is was defined as a set in terms of the ''indicators'' of method employment. This definition conflated the fact of method employment with scientonomic means of implicit rules actually ''detecting'' method employment.  In 2017, [[Paul Patton]], [[Nicholas Overgaard]], and [[Hakob Barseghyan]] argued that this is unacceptable, for in principle employed methods can be detected in many different ways, e.g. by analyzing the record of transitions from one accepted theory assessmentto the next in a particular community at a particular time ''or'', alternatively, by using [[The Third Law|the third law]] and inferring the employed method from the theories accepted by the community at that time.  Consequently, [[Employed Method (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)|a new definition of the term]] was suggested to distinguish the phenomenon of method employment from the ways and means of detecting it. [[CiteRef::Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan (20152017)|p. 129]] A method is said to be By this definition, ''employedmethod'' is nothing but the actual expectations of a certain community at a certain time . This new definition is in tune with the usage of the term throughout Barseghyan's [[Barseghyan (2015)|''tThe Laws of Scientific Change'' if]]. For instance, at time he claims that the community of Aristotelian-Medieval natural philosophers employed the method of intuition schooled by experience in the sense that they ''texpected''new theories to be intuitively true.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 143-145]] [[CiteRef::Patton, Overgaard, theories become accepted only when their acceptance and Barseghyan (2017)|p. 35]] Similarly, the double-blind trial method is permitted by currently employed in drug testing, in the sense that "the methodcommunity expects new drugs to be tested in double-blind trials".[[CiteRef::Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan (2017)|p. 35]] [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|ppp. 54134-142]]  The definition of the term suggested by [[Paul Patton|Patton]], [[Nicholas Overgaard|Overgaard]], and [[Hakob Barseghyan|Barseghyan]] and accepted towards the end of 2017 clears this conflation.|Current View=|Related Topics=Mechanism of MethodEmployment, Scientific ChangeMethod, Theory Acceptance, Methodology,|Page Status=Needs Editing|Editor Notes=This needs to be renamed to Method Employment to ensure that it is in tune with the naming convention for epistemic stances (eg. Theory Acceptance).

|Acceptance Indicators=This is when the first scientonomic definition of the term, [[Employed Method (Barseghyan-2015)]], became accepted, which is an indication that the topic itself is legitimate.|Still Accepted=YesNo|Accepted Until Era=CE|Accepted Until Year=2019|Accepted Until Month=September|Accepted Until Day=1