Difference between revisions of "The Third Law (Sebastien-2016)"
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|Topic=Mechanism of Method Employment | |Topic=Mechanism of Method Employment | ||
|Authors List=Zoe Sebastien, | |Authors List=Zoe Sebastien, | ||
| − | |Year | + | |Formulated Year=2016 |
|Formulation Text=A method becomes employed only when it is deducible from some subset of other employed methods and accepted theories of the time. | |Formulation Text=A method becomes employed only when it is deducible from some subset of other employed methods and accepted theories of the time. | ||
|Description=The [[The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015)|initial formulation]] of the law, proposed by Barseghyan in ''The Laws of Scientific Change'', stated that a [[Method|method]] becomes [[Method Employment|employed]] only when it is deducible from other employed methods and accepted theories of the time.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p.132]] In that formulation, it wasn't clear whether employed methods follow from ''all'' or only ''some'' of the accepted theories and employed methods of the time. This led to a logical paradox which this reformulation attempts to solve.[[CiteRef::Sebastien (2016)]] | |Description=The [[The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015)|initial formulation]] of the law, proposed by Barseghyan in ''The Laws of Scientific Change'', stated that a [[Method|method]] becomes [[Method Employment|employed]] only when it is deducible from other employed methods and accepted theories of the time.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p.132]] In that formulation, it wasn't clear whether employed methods follow from ''all'' or only ''some'' of the accepted theories and employed methods of the time. This led to a logical paradox which this reformulation attempts to solve.[[CiteRef::Sebastien (2016)]] | ||
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References
- a b 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.
- ^ Laudan (1984)
- a b c Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
- ^ McMullin, Ernan. (1988) The Shaping of Scientific Rationality: Construction and Constraint. In McMullin (Ed.) (1988), 1-47.
- ^ Kuhn (1962)
