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|Formulation File=The Zeroth Law Harder 2015.png
|Topic=Mechanism of Compatibility
|Authors List=Rory Harder,
|Formulated Year=2015
|Description=Harder's reformulation of the Zeroth Law states that “at any moment of time, the elements of the mosaic are compatible with each other”. ''Compatibility'' is a broader concept than strict logical ''consistency'', and is determined by the compatibility criteria of each mosaic.
Therefore, we cannot stipulate strict non-contradiction in a descriptive scientonomic theory, since at least one historical example contradicts it. Based on these two challenges to the law of consistency, Rory Harder proposed to reformulate the zeroth law as the law of compatibility. This new formulation was accepted by the Scientonomy community.
In 2018, [[Patrick Fraser]] and [[Ameer Sarwar]] suggested that the law has no empirical content as it fails to say much beyond what is implicit in the notion of [[Compatibility|''compatibility'']].[[CiteRef::Fraser and Sarwar (2018)]] Consequently, they suggested that the zeroth law is to be replaced by a definition of ''compatibility'' as well as a [[Compatibility Corollary (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)|compatibility corollary]]. This [[Modification:Sciento-2018-0015|modification]] became accepted in 2020 and the zeroth law became rejected.
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|Accepted From Approximate=Yes
|Acceptance Indicators=The law became ''de facto'' accepted by the community at that time together with the whole [[The Theory of Scientific Change|theory of scientific change]].
|Still Accepted=YesNo|Accepted Until Era=CE|Accepted Until Year=2020|Accepted Until Month=June|Accepted Until Day=3
|Accepted Until Approximate=No
|Rejection Indicators=The law became rejected as a result of the acceptance of the respective [[Modification:Sciento-2018-0015|suggested modification]].
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