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|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Resource=Barseghyan (2018)
|Preamble=TODOIn the current scientonomic ontology, ''method'' and ''methodology'' are conceived as different epistemic elements and the difference between the two is stated in terms of ''implicit'' and ''explicit'': Sinan add ''method'' has been understood as a preambleset of rules that can become the implicit expectations of a certain epistemic community, whereas the current definition of methodology is “a set of explicitly formulated rules of theory assessment”.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 53]] Yet, from the perspective of their ''propositional contents'', the two are exactly the same: the fact that a method has or hasn’t been explicitly stated by a certain epistemic agent pertains to the method’s ''historical fate'' but does not change its propositional content, for what is explicitly formulated by one epistemic agent, may be employed implicitly by another agent. Both ''method'' and ''methodology'' (as currently defined) refer to criteria (requirements, rules) for theory evaluation. Thus, their propositional content is ''normative'', i.e. they are both criteria (rules, requirements, standards) for theory evaluation. Whether these criteria have been historically accepted as the correct way of doing science and found their way into the textbooks and encyclopedias or whether they managed to become the actual expectations of a certain epistemic agent and employed in theory assessment – in both cases, we are still dealing with criteria for theory evaluation. Therefore, we need to reconceive our notions of method and methodology. The suggestion is to use to unite what has formerly been known as “method” and “methodology” into the new category of ''method'', understood as a set of criteria (rules, requirements) for theory evaluation. Consequently, the label “methodology” will be reserved exclusively for the respective normative discipline. This will ensure that ''methodology'' – just like most other “-logies” – will only denote the respective field of study.
|To Accept=Method (Barseghyan-2018), Methodology (Barseghyan-2018),
|To Reject=Method (Barseghyan-2015), Methodology (Sebastien-2016),
