Duhem's problem revisited: logical versus epistemic formulations and solutions.

When the results of an experiment appears to disconfirm a hypothesis, how does one know whether it's the hypothesis, or rather some auxiliary hypothesis or assumption, that is at fault? Philosophers' answers to this question, now known as "Duhem's problem," have differed widely. Despite these differ...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 197; no. 1; pp. 337 - 355
Main Authors:	Dietrich, Michael, Honenberger, Phillip
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jan2020
Subjects:	Assignment problems (Programming) Information storage & retrieval systems Scientists Test systems Philosophers Problem solving
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