No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Duhem's Thesis, Observationality, and Justification
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2022
Extract
Adolf Grünbaum, [1], and Philip Quinn, [7], have proposed two problems as sharpened versions of theses suggested by Pierre Duhem. (1) Can an hypothesis which in itself has no observational consequences ever be falsified by the evidence ? (2) When a theory has observational consequences only in conjunction with auxiliary hypotheses and some of these consequences fail, can the theory always be reasonably defended by constructing alternative auxiliary hypotheses ?
- Type
- Discussion
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1975 by the Philosophy of Science Association