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|Title=The Third Law | |Title=The Third Law | ||
|Alternate Titles=the law of method employment | |Alternate Titles=the law of method employment | ||
| + | |Formulation Text=A method becomes employed only when it is deducible from other employed methods and accepted theories of the time. | ||
| + | |Formulation File=The Third Law Barseghyan 2015.png | ||
|Topic=Mechanism of Method Employment | |Topic=Mechanism of Method Employment | ||
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan, | |Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan, | ||
|Formulated Year=2015 | |Formulated Year=2015 | ||
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|Description=Barseghyan's formulation of the third law states that a [[Method|method]] becomes [[Method Employment|employed]] only when it is deducible from other employed methods and accepted [[Theory|theories]] of the time. | |Description=Barseghyan's formulation of the third law states that a [[Method|method]] becomes [[Method Employment|employed]] only when it is deducible from other employed methods and accepted [[Theory|theories]] of the time. | ||
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The third law has also proven useful in explicating such requirements as Confirmed Novel Predictions (CNP). According to the hypothetico-deductive method, a theory which challenges our accepted ontology must provide CNP in order to become accepted. However, the history of CNP has been a point of confusion for some time. By the Third Law, one can show that the requirement of CNP has not always been expected of new theories. When Newton published his Principia, CNP were not a requirement of his professed method, yet they were still provided. On the other hand, Clark’s law of diminishing returns had no such predictions. This is because Newton’s proposal of unobservable entities, such as gravity and absolute space, challenged the accepted ontology of the time, while Clark’s simply accounted for the data already available. Thus, in utilizing the Third Law, one can discover both when certain criteria become an implicit rule and under what conditions they are necessary. | The third law has also proven useful in explicating such requirements as Confirmed Novel Predictions (CNP). According to the hypothetico-deductive method, a theory which challenges our accepted ontology must provide CNP in order to become accepted. However, the history of CNP has been a point of confusion for some time. By the Third Law, one can show that the requirement of CNP has not always been expected of new theories. When Newton published his Principia, CNP were not a requirement of his professed method, yet they were still provided. On the other hand, Clark’s law of diminishing returns had no such predictions. This is because Newton’s proposal of unobservable entities, such as gravity and absolute space, challenged the accepted ontology of the time, while Clark’s simply accounted for the data already available. Thus, in utilizing the Third Law, one can discover both when certain criteria become an implicit rule and under what conditions they are necessary. | ||
|Resource=Barseghyan (2015) | |Resource=Barseghyan (2015) | ||
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|Prehistory=The basic idea of ''the third law'' is not new. A number of philosophers have suggested that our beliefs about the world shape how we engage with the world. Different versions of this idea can be found in the works of [[Thomas Kuhn]], [[Paul Feyerabend]], [[Dudley Shapere]], [[Larry Laudan]], and [[Ernan McMullin]]. | |Prehistory=The basic idea of ''the third law'' is not new. A number of philosophers have suggested that our beliefs about the world shape how we engage with the world. Different versions of this idea can be found in the works of [[Thomas Kuhn]], [[Paul Feyerabend]], [[Dudley Shapere]], [[Larry Laudan]], and [[Ernan McMullin]]. | ||
Revision as of 20:56, 30 August 2016
References
- a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
- ^ Laudan, Larry. (1984) Science and Values. University of California Press.
- ^ McMullin, Ernan. (1988) The Shaping of Scientific Rationality: Construction and Constraint. In McMullin (Ed.) (1988), 1-47.
