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Mechanism of Compatibility (view source)
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Another example of incompatibility appears to be between Newtonian physics and Descartes’ physical theories. This appears to be a historical case of two inconsistent theories that both potentially satisfied the vague methods of the time, and illuminates a case of incompatibility that leads to a separation within the scientific community differ.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 212-213]]
|History=The first scientonomic account of compatibility, [[The Zeroth Law (Harder-2015)|the zeroth law]], was proposed by [[Rory Harder ]] in 2013. It was meant to address the issues with an earlier formulation by [[Hakob Barseghyan ]] which rendered inconsistency-toleration in science impossible. By divorcing the notion of [[Compatibility|compatibility]] from that of ''consistency'', Harder's formulation made it possible for agents to simultaneously accept mutually inconsistent theories.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 153]]
In 2018, [[Patrick Fraser]] and [[Ameer Sarwar]] argued that Harder's formulation of the zeroth law is a tautology and that its content can be recovered from the definition of [[Compatibility (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)|compatibility]]. They formulated a [[Compatibility Corollary (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)|corollary]] which preserves this content. They also argued that a new ''diachronic'' law of compatibility is needed. [[The Law of Compatibility (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)|The law they proposed]] spelled out under what conditions a pair of elements became to be considered compatible.[[CiteRef::Fraser and Sarwar (2018)]] The law became accepted in 2021.