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Modification:Sciento-2017-0005 (view source)
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|Date Suggested Day=5
|Date Suggested Approximate=No
|Authors List=Paul PattonHakob Barseghyan, Nicholas Overgaard, Hakob Barseghyan,Paul Patton
|Resource=Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan (2017)
|Preamble=It says in [[Barseghyan (2015)|''The Laws of Scientific Change'']] that the second law is a tautology, as it purportedly follows from the definition of ''employed method''.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 129, footnote]] However in later deductions of the theorems concerning the underdeterminism of scientific change and mosaic slit, the second law clearly transpires as a non-tautological law, i.e. a law that forbids certain courses of events.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 205-207]] [[The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)|The reformulation of the second law]] suggested by Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan in 2017 makes the causal connection between theory assessment outcomes and cases of theory acceptance/unacceptance explicit and thus shows that the new formulation of the law is not a tautology, as it clearly forbids certain logically possible scenarios, such as a theory satisfying the method of the time yet remaining unaccepted.[[CiteRef::Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan (2017)]]|Modification=|To Accept=The Second Law is Not a Tautology (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017),|To Reject=The Second Law is a Tautology (Barseghyan-2015),|Parent Modifications=Modification:Sciento-2017-0004,|Automatic=No
|Verdict=Accepted
|Date Assessed Year=2017
|Date Assessed Approximate=No
|Verdict Rationale=The modification was deemed uncontroversial by the community. Its acceptance was contingent upon the acceptance of [[The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)|the new formulation of the second law]] suggested by Patton, Overgaard and Barseghyan. Once the new second law became accepted, it was also accepted that the new law is ''not'' a tautology. There was no notable discussion concerning this modification.
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