Cabot, Youri (2021) Le holisme de Duhem contre la thèse de Duhem-Quine. Lato Sensu, revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences, 8 (3). pp. 38-45. ISSN 2295-8029
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Abstract
Epistemological holism, or Duhem-Quine thesis, supports that we can’t separately test a scientific hypothesis,
but only sets of hypothesis. Therefore, in case of a test failure, we can only conclude that at least one
hypothesis from a set is falsified, but we can’t determine which one. While this thesis is common to Duhem
and Quine, we regularly overlook differences between their analysis, whereas they do not relay on the same
arguments, and they reach to conclusions that contradict each other about essential matters. I propose
in this paper to expose Duhem’s holism, and to compare it to Quine’s holism. I mainly intend to show that
Duhem’s holism does not prevent scientific hypothesis’ falsifiability.
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| Keywords: | epistemological holism, Duhem-Quine thesis, auxiliary hypothesis, falsifiability | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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| Depositing User: | Lato Sensu | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2021 00:12 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2021 00:12 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 19655 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Lato Sensu, revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences | ||||||
| Publisher: | Société de philosophie des sciences | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/latosensu/artic... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | dx.doi.org/10.20416/LSRSPS.V8I3.4 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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| Date: | 7 October 2021 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 38-45 | ||||||
| Volume: | 8 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2295-8029 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19655 |
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