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The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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Most noteworthy is [[Larry Laudan]]’s account of changes in drug trial methods. In his ''Science and Values'', Laudan argued that the discovery of previously unaccounted effects resulted in the formulation of new methods of drug testing.[[CiteRef::Laudan (1984)|pp. 38-39]] However, while Laudan’s account hints at aspects of ''the third law'', it ultimately conflates [[Method|methods]] and [[Methodology|methodologies]].[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 130-131]]
[[Ernan McMullin]]’s accounts of historical methods offer another example of a prototype of ''the third law''. McMullin showed how the hypothetico-deductive method came to replace the Aristotelian Medieval method in the 18th century. In his account, McMullin shows that the employment of the hypothetico-deductivism was a result of accepting that the world is more complex than it appears in our observations.[[CiteRef::McMullin (1988)|pp. 32-34]] These accounts demonstrate how our accepted theories impact our implicit requirements for investigating the worldcriteria of theory assessment.
There have been many other attempts at explicating the way in which methods change, such as the reconstructions of Plato’s method performed by [[David Lindberg]], or the proposal of synchronous change in paradigm shifts by [[Thomas Kuhn]].
