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|History=The major flaw of [[the previous definition of the term|Employed Method (Barseghyan-2015)|the previous definition of the term]] was that it defined method employment in terms of the ''indicators'' of method employment. The definition confused the actual phenomenon of method employment with scientonomic means of ''detecting'' method employment. This is unacceptable, since employed methods can, in principle, be detected in many different ways. For instance, the fact of a method’s employment can be detected by analyzing the record of transitions from one accepted theory to the next in a particular community at a particular time. Alternatively, we can try to infer the employed method of the time from our knowledge of the body of accepted theories using [[The Third Law|the third law|The Third Law]]. The previous definition of ''employed method'' equated method employment with one particular way of ''identifying'' method employment. According to the authors of the new definition:[[CiteRef::Patton, Overgaard, Barseghyan (2017)|p. 35]]