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|Preamble=Normative theories, such as those of methodology or ethics, have been excluded from the ontology of scientific change since including them appears to give rise to [[The Paradox of Normative Propositions|a destructive paradox]] first identified by [[Joel Burkholder]]. There are many historical cases where employed [[Method|scientific methods]] are known to conflict with professed [[Methodology|methodologies]]. This seems to violate [[The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015)|the third]] and [[The Zeroth Law (Harder-2015)|zeroth laws]] of scientific change. By the third law, employed methods are deducible from accepted theories. But, this seems impossible in cases where methodologies and methods conflict. Under the zeroth law, all elements in the scientific are compatible with one another. But, that seems to be clearly not the case if methodologies and methods conflict with one another.