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|Question=What is '''scientific community'''? Can it be defined as more than simply “the bearer of a mosaic”?

|Description=As soon as discussions about the laws of scientific change and the field of [[Scientonomy|scientonomy]] began, scientonomists have consistently asked two questions; how to define, and how to identify scientific communities. Although the term '''scientific community''' is constantly used by scientonomists, it currently lacks a scientonomic definition. Among other things, a proper scientonomic definition of the term would help clarify the scope of scientonomy.

|Authors List=Nicholas Overgaard, Felix Walpole,

The failure of the Supradium Model was that it never consistently defined the notion of a scientific community using necessary and sufficient characteristics. An interest community was, in essence, a redefinition of the community as “bearer of a mosaic” in the sense that any interest community simply shares a set of theories and methods. Proposing interest communities offered nothing new to scientonomy. Network communities seemed important – indeed, they remain important for understanding the social elements of science – but lacked a formulation that could be incorporated into ''The Laws of Scientific Change''. They were deemed an unnecessary, but possible feature of a scientific community, to be explored – pursued, if you will – in some other way. Lastly, we had institutional communities. Institutional communities seemed the most feasible direction for defining a scientific community given ''The Laws''’ adaptation to changing historical contexts because institutional communities truly recognized themselves as communities, rather than being arbitrary characteristics imposed onto a historical case study by a researcher.

|Current View=Currently, ''scientific community'' refers to the bearer of a [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]]. At the moment, the term lacks a proper definition. It continues to be referred to as “the bearer of a scientific mosaic”.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p.249]] Yet the concept remains fundamental to the field. For, every time a scientonomist refers to a [[Theory|theory]] that is [[Theory Acceptance|accepted]] or a [[Method|method]] that is [[Employed Method|employed]], they actually mean a theory accepted or a method employed ''by the scientific community''.

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