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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]]

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