Underdetermination and Theory Succession from the Perspective of String Theory.
This article investigates the implications of string theory for the conception of scientific theory confirmation. The classical understanding of theory confirmation is based on the assumption that scientific theory building is underdetermined by the available empirical data. Several arguments are pr...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 73; no. 3; pp. 298 - 323 |
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Cambridge University Press
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