Difference between revisions of "The Paradox of Normative Propositions"
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|Description=There are many historical cases where employed [[Method|scientific methods]] are known to conflict with professed methodologies. 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, employed methods are always deductive consequences of accepted theories. But, 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 methods conflict with one another. How can this paradox be resolved? | |Description=There are many historical cases where employed [[Method|scientific methods]] are known to conflict with professed methodologies. 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, employed methods are always deductive consequences of accepted theories. But, 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 methods conflict with one another. How can this paradox be resolved? | ||
|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. | |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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References
- a b c d Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
- a b c Sebastien, Zoe. (2016) The Status of Normative Propositions in the Theory of Scientific Change. Scientonomy 1, 1-9. Retrieved from https://www.scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/26947.
