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Once normative propositions and methodologies began to count as theories, the paradox of normative propositions arose. The problem was that it appeared to violate the third law of scientific change, which stated: a method becomes employed only when it is deducible from other employed methods and accepted theories of the time. If employed methods can must be deducible from other methods or methodologies, differences in methods and methodologies would result in a violation - either methods can follow from methodologies or they can’t. Not only was the third law violated, the incompatibility of the conjuncts of the paradox (that methodologies count as theories; and the third law stating that methods should follow from said methodologies) resulted in the zeroth law’s violation as well. The zeroth law states that at any moment, the theories in a mosaic must be compatible.

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