Duhem-Quine problem

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

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.
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