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The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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Ernan McMullin’s accounts of historical methods offer another example of a prototype of ''the third law''. McMullin showed how the implicit method used by Galileo was at odds with the method he professed to use and that which was actually employed at the time.[[CiteRef::Allen (1988)]]
Furthermore, McMullin showed how the hypothetico-deductive method came to replace the Aristotelian Medieval method in the 18th century. In his account, McMullin shows that the employment of the hypothetico-deductivism was a result of accepting that the world is more complex than it appears in our observations.[[CiteRef::McMullin (1988)|pp. 32-34.]] These accounts demonstrate how our accepted theories impact our implicit requirements for investigating the world.
There have been many other attempts at explicating the way in which methods change, such as the reconstructions of Plato’s method performed by David Lindberg, or the proposal of synchronous change in paradigm shifts by Thomas Kuhn.
