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|Description=According to Barseghyan, epistemic community is an epistemic agent, i.e. it is capable of taking [[Epistemic Stance|epistemic stances]] towards [[Epistemic Element|epistemic elements]].[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2018)]]

|History=In [[Barseghyan (2015)|''The Laws of Scientific Change'']], Barseghyan presents communities as the sole bearer of mosaic.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. xi]] The language of "[[Bearers of Mosaic|mosaic bearers]]" was used until 2018, when the term [[Epistemic Agent|''epistemic agent'']] was coined.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2018)]] Since then, the conversation has been about [[Subtypes of Epistemic Agent|types of epistemic agents]]. Thus, the idea that epistemic communities are a subtype of epistemic agents can be traced back to 2018, when it superseded the idea that [[Bearers of Mosaic - Communities (Barseghyan-20162015)|communities are bearers of a mosaic]].

|Acceptance Indicators=This is when the term [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic agent]] was coined and, as a result, this formulation superseded the idea that [[Bearers of Mosaic - Communities (Barseghyan-20162015)|communities are bearers of a mosaic]].