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Mechanism of Method Employment (view source)
Revision as of 17:37, 7 December 2017
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|History=In the context of scientonomy the answer to this question has been traditionally provided by [[The Third Law|the third law]]. Until 2016 it was [[The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015)|the third law]] as formulated by [[Hakob Barseghyan]].[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 54]]
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 was [[Modification:Sciento-2016-0001|resolved]] by [[Zoe Sebastien]] in 2016. In her [[The Third Law (Sebastien-2016)|reformulation of the law]], Sebastien made explicit that an employed method need not necessarily follow from ''all'' other employed methods and accepted theories but only from ''some'' of them. [[CiteRef::Sebastien (2016)]] This made it possible for an employed method to be logically inconsistent and yet ''compatible'' with openly accepted [[Methodology|methodological dicta]].
|Related Topics=Mechanism of Theory Acceptance, Role of Sociocultural Factors in Method Employment,
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