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{{Definitional Topic
|Question=What is '''methodology'''? How should it be ''defined''?
|Description=In the context of discussion concerning scientific change, the terms method and methodology have been traditionally used as synonyms. The key definitional task here is to decide how ''methodology'' is to be ''defined''. In particular, should it be used as a synonym for ''method'', or is it something very different from ''method''?
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
}}
'''Methodology''' is a set of explicitly formulated rules of theory assessment. Openly professed methodologies consist of [[Theory#Descriptive and Normative|normative propositions]] that prescribe how theories ''ought'' to be assessed. Among the most famous examples of methodologies are the inductivist-empiricist methodology of [[John Locke|Locke]] and [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], the probabilist methodology of logical positivism, [[Karl Popper|Popper]]'s falsificationism, [[Imre Lakatos|Lakatos]]'s methodology of scientific research programmes, and the early [[Larry Laudan|Laudan]]'s pragmatist methodology. Importantly, methodologies should not be confused with the actual implicit expectation of a community, i.e. from [[Method|methods]].
