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|Summary=Accept the new law of norm employment that fixes some of the issues of the current law of method employment and makes it applicable to norms of all types.
|Date Suggested Year=2022
|Date Suggested Month=OctoberFebruary|Date Suggested Day=3028
|Date Suggested Approximate=No
|Authors List=William Rawleigh
|Resource=Rawleigh (2022)
|Preamble=At present, there are several problems with how [[The Third Law (Sebastien-2016)|the third law ]] is formulated and operates that need to be resolved. Foremost among these is that the third law is, in its current form, based on an outdated ontology that assumes that methods of theory evaluation are a fundamental member of our ontology of epistemic elements. After the acceptance of [[Modification:Sciento-2018-0006|Barseghyan’s proposal]] that methods be subsumed under the category of normative theories, the third law no longer exhaustively covers any situation in which we employ any kind of normative theory. In its present form it is limited to methods, though there is no strictly logical justification at present for thinking that the mechanism by which a method is employed is any different than the mechanism by which any other norm is employed.
In addition, the current formulation of the third law uses the term ''deducible'', which currently lacks a scientonomic definition. We do not currently know what it means for something to be deducible, what the criteria of deducibility would be, or whether the conditions of deducibility would be part of the first-order theories of the mosaic or part of the second-order theories that range over the mosaic.
The new law of norm employment aims to remedy all three of these issues:
* the formulation of the covers all norms rather than only methods;
* it replaces a ''deducible'' with ''derivable'', which in the context of mathematical model theory simply means to ''be semantically entailed'', and thus can potentially include non-deductive inferences (e.g. inductive, abductive);
* it replaces a specific enumeration of epistemic elements with a general "elements of the mosaic".
A law of method employment can be deduced strictly from the law of norm employment.
|Modification=
|To Accept=The Law of Norm Method Employment (Rawleigh-2022), The Law of Method Norm Employment (Rawleigh-2022)
|To Reject=The Third Law (Sebastien-2016)
|Automatic=No