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The Second Law (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
|Description={{#evt:service=youtube|id=BBBxJ8yYrsg|urlargs=start=2034|alignment=right|description=The second law explained by Hakob Barseghyan|container=frame }}According to the law, in order to become accepted, a theory is assessed by the [[Method|method]] employed at the time by the [[Scientific Community|scientific community]] in question.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 129]] The key idea behind the second law is that theories are evaluated by the criteria employed by the community at the time of the evaluation. Thus, different communities employing different method of evaluation can end up producing different assessment outcomes.
Since it follows from the definition of [[Employed Method|''employed method'']] (a set of implicit rules actually employed in theory assessment), this formulation of the second law is viewed as a tautology. Thus, a theory may violate the [[Methodology|methodology]] to which a [[Scientific Community|scientific community]] explicitly subscribes, but not the actually employed method - a fact true by definition.
|History=This was the original formulation of the second law proposed by Barseghyan in [[Barseghyan (2015)|''The Laws of Scientific Change'']]. [[Scientonomy Seminar|Seminar]] discussions revealed the law's two major flaws. First, it didn't clearly indicate what happened to a theory when a certain [[Theory Assessment Outcomes|assessment outcome]] obtained. Specifically, it didn't link theory assessment outcomes to the theory's acceptance or unacceptance. Secondly, the law sounded like a tautology which is not what a good law should sound like. Consequently, in 2017, a new formulation of the law was suggested by Patton, Overgaard and Barseghyan, which became accepted towards the end of that year and, thus, replaced the initial formulation.[[CiteRef::Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan (2017)]]
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|Editor Notes=The prehistory section is too broad; it . It gives a general prehistory of the TOPIC, rather than a prehistory of the THEORY. TODO: this This section should credit only those philosophers who understood the contextual nature of theory evaluation, i.e. that theories are being evaluated by the method OF THE TIME.}}{{YouTube Video|VideoID=BBBxJ8yYrsg|VideoStartAt=2034|VideoDescription=The second law explained by Hakob Barseghyan|VideoEmbedSection=Description
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