Tautological Status of the First Law

Is the first law a tautology, i.e. are there circumstances (perhaps the collapse of the society which contains the scientific community) under which the first law can 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.

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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 Theories

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

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Suggested Modifications

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Verdict	Verdict Rationale	Date Assessed
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

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Related Topics

This question is a subquestion of Mechanism of Scientific Inertia.