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Underdetermination — (sometimes indeterminacy of data to theory) is a term used in the discussion of theories and their relation to the evidence that is cited to support them. Arguments from underdetermination are used to support epistemic relativism by claiming that … Wikipedia
underdetermination — (of theory) The underdetermination of theory by data is the view that there will always be more than one theory consistent with any body of empirical data. A stronger version claims that this would be so even if the data were to include all… … Philosophy dictionary
science, philosophy of — Branch of philosophy that attempts to elucidate the nature of scientific inquiry observational procedures, patterns of argument, methods of representation and calculation, metaphysical presuppositions and evaluate the grounds of their validity… … Universalium
Confirmation holism — Confirmation holism, also called epistemological holism is the claim that a single scientific theory cannot be tested in isolation; a test of one theory always depends on other theories and hypotheses. For example, in the first half of the 19th… … Wikipedia
Unterdeterminiertheit empirischer Theorien durch die Evidenz — Die Unterdeterminiertheit empirischer Theorien durch die Evidenz (engl. underdetermination of theories by evidence) bezeichnet mehrere Varianten wissenschaftstheoretischer Thesen. Demnach gibt es für eine/jede Theorie, die durch bestimmte… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Scientific realism — is, at the most general level, the view that the world described by science is the real world, as it is, independent of what we might take it to be. Within philosophy of science, it is often framed as an answer to the question what does the… … Wikipedia
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Ambiguity — Sir John Tenniel s illustration of the Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male s face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being… … Wikipedia
Pig Latin — is an English language game in which the initial consonant sound of an English word is placed at the end and an ay is affixed (Ex.: banana would yield anana bay), to both obfuscate the encoding and to indicate for the intended recipient the… … Wikipedia
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