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Duhem-Quine problem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The problem that it is impossible to experimentally test a scientific hypothesis in isolation, because every empirical test requires one or more background assumptions.

Word forms

Duhem-Quine problem the Duhem-Quine problem

Etymology

Named after French physicist Pierre Duhem and American logician Willard Van Orman Quine, who wrote about similar concepts.

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