Confirmation Holism
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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 century, astronomers were observing the path of the planet Uranus to see if it conformed to the path predicted by Newton''s law of gravitation; it didn''t. There were an indeterminate number of possible explanations, such as…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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 century, astronomers were observing the path of the planet Uranus to see if it conformed to the path predicted by Newton''s law of gravitation; it didn''t. There were an indeterminate number of possible explanations, such as that the telescopic observations were wrong because of some unknown factor; or that Newton''s laws were in error; or that God moves different planets in different ways.