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[[Paul Hoyningen-Huene ]] proposed a lean distinction between the two contexts, proposing that they are simply two different perspectives that can be taken towards scientific knowledge. Unlike earlier views, it does not suppose that discovery and justification are two distinct processes.[[CiteRef::Hoyningen-Huene (2006)|pp. 128-130]] [[Hakob Barseghyan ]] deemed the terms ''discovery'' and ''justification'' to be misleading.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)| pp. 23-25]] ''Discovery'' is generally taken to refer to an epistemic achievement that has been positively appraised, such as the discovery of the planet Neptune. The term ''construction'', used instead, refers to the creative processes by which new theories come about. Theories undergo a process of appraisal by a scientific community. Thus, we speak of the questions of theory construction and theory appraisal, which, as for Hoyningen-Huene, can overlap with one another.  Barseghyan argued that scientonomy should describe and explain how changes in the mosaic of accepted scientific theories and methods take place.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 29]] Any actual instance of scientific change involves an appraisal, therefore scientonomy must account for how theories are appraised if it is to account for changes in the scientific mosaic. It need not account for theory construction.