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The Third Law (Sebastien-2016) (view source)
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{{Descriptive Theory
|Title=The Third Law
|Alternate Titles=the law of method employment
|Question Answered=Mechanism of Method Employment
|Authors List=Zoe Sebastien,
|Year Formulated=2016
|Formulation Text=A method becomes employed 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]]
[[File:The_Third_Law_Barseghyan_2015.png|center|367px]]
In this 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)]]
This reformulation of the law makes explicit that an employed method need not necessarily follow from ''all'' other employed methods and accepted theories but only from ''some'' of them. This made it possible for an employed method to be logically inconsistent and yet [[The Zeroth Law|compatible]] with openly accepted [[Methodology|methodological dicta]].
|Resource=Sebastien (2016)
|Formulation File=The Third Law Sebastien 2016.png
}}
|Title=The Third Law
|Alternate Titles=the law of method employment
|Question Answered=Mechanism of Method Employment
|Authors List=Zoe Sebastien,
|Year Formulated=2016
|Formulation Text=A method becomes employed 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]]
[[File:The_Third_Law_Barseghyan_2015.png|center|367px]]
In this 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)]]
This reformulation of the law makes explicit that an employed method need not necessarily follow from ''all'' other employed methods and accepted theories but only from ''some'' of them. This made it possible for an employed method to be logically inconsistent and yet [[The Zeroth Law|compatible]] with openly accepted [[Methodology|methodological dicta]].
|Resource=Sebastien (2016)
|Formulation File=The Third Law Sebastien 2016.png
}}