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Tautological Status of The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017) (view source)
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|Question=Is The Second Law (the second law suggested by Patton-, Overgaard-, and Barseghyan-in 2017) a tautology?
|Question Title=Tautological Status of The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)
|Predicate=is tautological
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|Answer Title Formula=The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017) is <Object>
|Description=As any law, the second law attempts to forbid certain courses of action, for otherwise it would lack any empirical content and would be a tautology. Thus, the question is whether [[The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)|the second law as formulated by Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan in 2017 ]] is tautological or non-tautological, i.e. whether there are courses of action in principle forbidden by the second law.
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan, Nicholas Overgaard, Paul Patton
|Formulated Year=2017