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|Question=Is the second law a tautology, i.e. can it ''in principle'' be violated?
Tautological Status of the Second Law (view source)
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|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. However, it is not quite clear whether the law in its current formulation can be contradicted by any conceivable situation. So the question is whether the law is tautological or non-tautological, i.e. whether there are circumstances (perhaps the collapse of the society which contains the scientific community) under which the second law can in principle be violated?
|Authors List=Rory Harder
|Formulated Year=2013
|Academic Events=Scientonomy Seminar 2013
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|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Theory Acceptance
|Authors ListPage Status=Rory Harder,Needs Editing|Formulated YearEditor Notes=2013|Academic Events=Scientonomy Seminar 2013,
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