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|Title=Resolution to the Paradox of Normative Propositions
|Theory Type=Descriptive
|Formulated Year=2016
|Description=The paradox of normative propositions arises from the following three premises:
 
# there have been many historical cases where employed [[Method|scientific methods]] conflicted with professed [[Methodology|methodologies]];
# by [[The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015)|the third law]], employed methods are deducible from accepted theories, including methodologies;
# two proposition cannot be mutually inconsistent if one logically follows from another.
Sebastien's solution rejects premise (2), by clarifying that an employed method shouldn't necessarily follow from ''all'' accepted theories, but only from ''some''. In those cases, when an employed method is in conflict with an accepted methodology, it is an indication that the former doesn't follow from the latter. As for their mutual inconsistency, that is allowed by [[The Zeroth Law (Harder-20162015)|the zeroth law]].
|Resource=Sebastien (2016)
|History=Logically speaking, the third law as stated: “A method is employed only if it follows from other methods or theories,” seems to imply a universality: all other employed methods, all accepted theories in the [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]]. Zoe Sebastien’s resolution to the paradox of normative propositions specifies that the universal implications need not be the case. The resolution as applied to the third law, would read that employed methods didn’t follow from all accepted theories, but some. This new formulation has been accepted.
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|VideoDescription=The paradox and its resolution explained by Gregory Rupik
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{{Acceptance Record
|Community=Community:Scientonomy
|Accepted From Era=CE
|Accepted From Year=20162017|Accepted From Month=SeptemberJanuary|Accepted From Day=321
|Accepted From Approximate=No
|Acceptance Indicators=The solution to the paradox became accepted as a result of the acceptance of the respective [[Modification:Sciento-2016-0001|suggested modification]].
|Still Accepted=Yes
|Accepted Until Approximate=No
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