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The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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|History=Barseghyan's formulation of the third law was the first attempt to address the problem of method employment in the scientonomic context.
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<blockquote>But why are we forced to introduce this new requirement to our method of drug testing? Well, because this new requirement follows deductively from two elements of the mosaic – from our knowledge that the results of testing a hypothesis about a drug’s efficacy may be voided by the placebo effect and from a more fundamental requirement that we must accept only the best available hypotheses.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 137]]</blockquote>
Notably, "while the new requirement is abstract (“the possible placebo effect must be taken into account”), the blind trial method is concrete, for it prescribes how exactly the testing should be done. Thus, ''the blind trial method'' specifies the new abstract requirement. This is the relation of ''implementation'': a more concrete method implements the requirements of a more abstract method by making them more concrete".[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 138]] That is, ''the blind trial method'' is not the only possible ''implementation'' of the abstract requirement to take the placebo effect into account.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 138]] In Barseghyan's words, "the same abstract requirement can have many different implementations".[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 139]]
A final change in method occurred when ''experimenter's bias'' was discovered:
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Evidently, the ''double-blind trial method'' is also an apparent example of the relation of ''implementation.''
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