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The Paradox of Normative Propositions (view source)
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|Question=If methodologies are themselves theories that can be accepted by a community, then how can methods be deductive consequences of accepted theories, given that historically employed methods and accepted methodologies have often been inconsistent with one another?
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|QuestionDescription=If There are many historical cases where employed [[Method|scientific methods]] are known to conflict with professed methodologies are themselves theories that can be accepted by a community. This seems to violate either [[The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015)|the third law]] or [[The Zeroth Law (Harder-2015)|the zeroth law]] of scientific change. By the third law, then how can employed methods be are always deductive consequences of accepted theories. But, given that historically this seems impossible in cases where accepted methodologies and employed methods conflict. Under the zeroth law, all elements in the scientific mosaic are compatible with one another. But, that seems to be clearly not the case if methodologies and accepted methodologies have often been inconsistent methods conflict with one another. How can this paradox be resolved?
|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Method Employment
|Authors List=Joel Burkholder
|Formulated Year=2013
|Current View=The paradox was resolved by [[Zoe Sebastien]] in 2016 when she suggested a [[The Third Law (Sebastien-2016)|new formulation]] of the third law which made it clear that employed methods shouldn't follow from all accepted theories, but only from some.
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|Community=Community:Scientonomy
|Accepted From Era=CE
|Accepted From Year=20152016|Accepted From Month=January|Accepted From Day=1|Accepted From Approximate=YesNo|Acceptance Indicators=The question became ''de facto'' accepted by the community at that time together with the whole [[The Theory of Scientific Change|theory of scientific change]].
|Still Accepted=Yes
|Accepted Until Approximate=No
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