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The Second Law (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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|Description=The example is presented in [[Barseghyan (2015)|''The Laws of Scientific Change'']]:
<blockquote>Even the most “revolutionary” theories must meet the actual requirements of the time in order to become accepted. Einstein’s general relativity is considered as one of the most ground-breaking theories of all time and, yet, it was evaluated in an orderly fashion and became accepted only after it satisfied the requirements of the time. From that episode we can reconstruct what the actual requirements of the time were. It is well known that the theory became accepted circa 1920, after the publication of the results of Eddington’s famous observations of the Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 which confirmed one of the novel predictions of general relativity – namely, the deflection of light in the spacetime curved due to the Sun’s mass. Thus, it is safe to say that the scientific community of the time expected (among other things) that a new theory must have confirmed novel predictions.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 130]]</blockquote>
|Example Type=Historical
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{{Theory Example
|Title=Acceptance of Cartesian and Newtonian Theories
|Description=<blockquote>Suppose we study the history of the transition from the Aristotelian-medieval natural philosophy to that of Descartes in France and that of Newton in Britain circa 1700. It follows from ''the second law'' that both theories managed to satisfy the actual expectations of the respective scientific communities, for otherwise they wouldn’t have become accepted.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 130]]</blockquote>
|Example Type=Historical
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