5 ideas
19518 | Evidentialism says justifications supervene on the available evidence [Conee/Feldman] |
22137 | Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter] |
18197 | Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem] |
19519 | Rational decisions are either taken to be based on evidence, or to be explained causally [Conee/Feldman] |
15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |