Is it never possible to falsify a hypothesis irrevocably?
pp. 260-288
Abstrakt
… the physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test but only a whole group of hypotheses; 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 (my italics)1.
Publication details
Published in:
Harding Sandra (1976) Can theories be refuted?: essays on the Duhem-Quine thesis. Dordrecht, Springer.
Seiten: 260-288
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1863-0_15
Referenz:
Grünbaum Adolf (1976) „Is it never possible to falsify a hypothesis irrevocably?“, In: S. Harding (ed.), Can theories be refuted?, Dordrecht, Springer, 260–288.