Tautological Status of The First Law for Methods (Barseghyan-2015)

Is the first law for methods suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology?

As any law, the first law for methods suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 attempts to forbid certain courses of action, for otherwise it would lack any empirical content and would be a tautology. So the question is whether the law is tautological or non-tautological, i.e. whether there is any conceivable course of events under which the law can in principle be violated.

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Nicholas Overgaard, Hakob Barseghyan, Gregory Rupik and Paul Patton in 2016. The question is currently accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by Scientonomy community.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record of the Question

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 January 2016	The question became de facto accepted by the community at that time together with the whole theory of scientific change.	Yes

All Direct Answers

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Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
The First Law for Methods (Barseghyan-2015) is Tautological (Pandey-2023)	The first law for methods suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 is tautological.	2023

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Accepted Direct Answers

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Suggested Modifications

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Date Assessed	Verdict	Verdict Rationale
Sciento-2023-0003	Scientonomy	28 December 2023	Accept that the first law and its corollaries are tautologies. Also accept that the rejection theorems are tautologies.		Open	The modification can only become accepted once modification Sciento-2024-0001 becomes accepted.

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