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Ideas of Pierre Duhem, by Text

[French, 1861 - 1916, A practising physicist.]

1906	The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory

p.53

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Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Boulter]

p.187

p.101

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Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong