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|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
|History=According to [[Employed Method (Barseghyan-2015)|the original scientonomic definition of the term]], suggested in 2016 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 ''method employment'' was defined in terms of the ''indicators'' of method employment. This definition conflated the fact of method employment with scientonomic means of ''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 to the next in a particular community at a particular time ''or'', alternatively, by infer the employed method of the time from our knowledge of the body of accepted theories using [[The Third Law|the third law]].
