need to further study thermodynamics in a specific way because of the needs of applications in space, his approach is a normative decision based on the normative desires of some group of people. However, the results which he arrives at will remain true for the conditions and viewpoint specified, despite the value to the space industry, which may actually need some other way of understanding thermodynamics after all.This demonstrates that the influence of values does not alter our perception of reality, but allows us to discover increasingly more of it. If one positive fact is found fruitless, this prompts more study which may be of use as a means to our end. Additionally, most scientist will agree that once a positive fact is delineated, this does not hinder further research into the area, for the sake of bettering understanding and bettering the means already acheieved. Scientific tradition is a self-regulating system, where unfounded biases are eliminated by intercourse with the rest of the scientific community. Heilbroner admits that “economists perform few experiments that can be rerun in a laboratory, their results cannot be so easily falsified as those of the natural scientists, but they can be equally subject to scrutiny and criticism in the forum of expert opinion.” (Blaug, 120)The point here is that the physicist does not claim that his new facts of thermodynamics are all encompassing, representing all the knowledge necessary for human use of thermodynamics. There may be other more beneficial aspects of thermodynamic theory which are outside of the framework he has developed. This is the problem with unclarified value-laden economics. If we implicitly use a definition of inflation or unemployment to make a positive statement, it can mislead people to believe the statement applies to other (typically common use) definitions. One positive statement about a specific type of unemployment will not be sufficient...
