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Premise A isnt true (eg there is a mitzva to grant a get, not every Jew must grant a get)

Granted techeiles isnt analagous to get. Yet even if your reword your premise a to something along the lines of “all Jews must do every mitzvah possible that if circumstances call for r”

your conclusion STILL isnt true
namely: “It therefore follows, if B and C then A.”

Example:
premise A) (reworded) all Jews must do every mitzvah possible if circumstances call for it
. Premise B) Yibum is a mitzvah.
Premise C) (not relevant)

Yet it doesn’t follow that if B then A

Here is a better and more analogous example. Suppose we dig up Moshe Rabbeinu’s Tefillin, We recognize his handwriting, all archaeologists recognize it as real etc etc. then Eliyahu Hanavi comes along and says these are Moshe Rabbeinu’s tefilin. and lo and behold they are Rabbeinu Tam’s. While certainly a fascinating find, this has exactly zero bearign on halacha lemaisah. halcah isnt decided by Archaeology nor by Eliyahu hanavi. We have a mesora and that doesnt include Techeiles.

so while it is intersting, I dont think we should revise halachic practice based on archaeology. That is a ver y dangerous game