Confirmation holism
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title:
Confirmation holism
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In philosophy of science, confirmation holism, also called epistemological holism, is the view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but rather that only a set of statements can be so. It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of underdetermination in physical theory to all knowledge claims. Duhem's idea was, roughly, that no theory of any type can be tested in isolation but only whe
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Idea in the philosophy of science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_holism
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2003-07-17T20:04:41Z
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2024-09-12T08:04:11Z
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