[go: up one dir, main page]
Jump to content

Duhem-Quine problem

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

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

Proper noun

[edit]

the Duhem-Quine problem

  1. (philosophy) The problem that it is impossible to experimentally test a scientific hypothesis in isolation, because every empirical test requires one or more background assumptions.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Duhem-Quine_problem&oldid=82050815"