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The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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|Formulated Year=2015
|Formulation File=The Third Law Barseghyan 2015.png
|Description=Barseghyan's formulation of the third law states that a [[Method|method]] becomes [[Employed Method|employed]] only when it is deducible from other employed methods and accepted [[Theory|theories]] of the time. "Essentially," Barseghyan writes, "the third law stipulates that our accepted theories shape our employed methods"."[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 132]]
According to this formulation, a method becomes employed when:
There have been many other attempts at explicating the way in which methods change, such as the reconstructions of Plato’s method performed by [[David Lindberg]], or the proposal of synchronous change in paradigm shifts by [[Thomas Kuhn]].
Nevertheless, according to Barseghyan, "what we have had so far is a picture from a bird’s eye perspective. What we lack is the knowledge of the actual mechanism: how exactly can accepted theories shape employed methods?".[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 133]]
|History=Barseghyan's formulation of the third law was the first attempt to address the problem of method employment in the scientonomic context.
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