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Five Duhemian Theses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

R. M. Yoshida
R. M. Yoshida*
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University of Lethbridge
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Extract

In concluding section 2, chapter VI of part II of [6], Duhem claimed:

  1. (I) ... the physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses ... ([6], p. 187)

  2. (II) ... when the experiment is in disagreement with his predictions, what he learns is that at least one of the hypotheses constituting this group is unacceptable and ought to be modified; but the experiment does not designate which one should be changed'. ([6], p. 187)

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , March 1975 , pp. 29 - 45
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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