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• The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015)  + (In Barseghyan’s explication of the Aristot … In Barseghyan’s explication of the Aristotelian-Medieval method, he illustrates how Aristotelian natural philosophy impacted the method of the time.[[CITE_Barseghyan (2015)|p. 143]] Most notable is the acceptance of teleology – a theory which states that every thing has a nature it seeks to fulfill (e.g. an acorn’s nature is to become an oak tree). The best theories, then, would uncover the nature of a thing. If only the best theories are acceptable, this leads to the abstract requirement that "A theory is acceptable only if it grasps the nature of a thing".</br></br>It stood to reason that the nature of a thing can only be intuitively grasped by an experienced person. This fundamental belief, combined with the abstract requirement outline above, led to a method which specifies these requirements known as the Aristotelian-Medieval method: "A proposition is acceptable if it grasps the nature of a thing through intuition schooled by experience, or if it is deduced from general intuitive propositions".[[CITE_Barseghyan (2015)|p. 145]] This is an illustration of how employed methods are deductive consequences of the accepted theories of the time.nces of the accepted theories of the time.)

• The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015)  +