Duhem–Quine thesis
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Duhem–Quine thesis
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In philosophy of science, the Duhem–Quine thesis, also called the Duhem–Quine problem, posits that it is impossible to experimentally test a scientific hypothesis in isolation, because an empirical test of the hypothesis requires one or more background assumptions: the thesis says that unambiguous scientific falsifications are impossible. It is named after French theoretical physicist Pierre Duhem and American logician Willard Van Orman Quine, who wrote about similar concepts. In recent decades,
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Principle in the philosophy of science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhem%E2%80%93Quine_thesis
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2005-11-10T23:41:19Z
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2024-08-29T17:20:41Z
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