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Scope of Scientonomy - Explicit and Implicit (view source)
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|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
|Prehistory=This was not an issue during the era of logical positivists, logical empiricists and [[Karl Popper]] due to the fact that they were mainly concerned with normative theories. As a result, their theories have concentrated on explicit requirements rather than the actual expectations of science. For example, Popper has criticized logical positivists on a priori explicit methodological grounds.[[CiteRef::Popper (1959)]] It is also important to note that all of them agreed on the existence of a universal scientific method.[[CiteRef::Ayer (1952)]] [[CiteRef::Popper (1963)]] While they disagreed on what the exact method was, they still presupposed it. Consequently, they believed that all scientific communities utilized the scientific method either explicitly or implicitly. The view over the existence of a universal scientific method is also shared by [[John Worrall]] as well.[[CiteRef::Worrall (1988)]]
[[Thomas Kuhn]] was more ambiguous on the issue. He rejected the existence of a universal method and believed that different paradigms employed different methods.[[CiteRef::Kuhn (1962a)]] However, his view can be read as change in methodology as well. After a paradigm shift occurs, scientists change their explicitly stated methodology in the new textbooks. Thus, it is not clear what his view is on this issue.
