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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 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 (2017)]] By this definition, ''employed method'' 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)|''The Laws of Scientific Change'']]. For instance, he claims that the community of Aristotelian-Medieval natural philosophers employed the method of intuition schooled by experience in the sense that they ''expected'' new theories to be intuitively true.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 143-145]][[CiteRef::Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan (2017)|p. 35]] Similarly, the double-blind trial method is currently employed in drug testing, in the sense that "the community expects new drugs to be tested in double-blind trials".[[CiteRef::Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan (2017)|p. 35]][[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 134-142]]
The definition of the term suggested [[Paul Patton|Patton]], [[Nicholas Overgaard|Overgaard]], and [[Hakob Barseghyan|Barseghyan]] clears this conflation.
