Please, tell me again how Quine's holism was a huge blow to positivist philosophy of science.
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@lastpositivist It showed that no hypothesis can ever be conclusively falsified.
@bowmanthebard Surely more trouble for Popper? Positivists concentrated on experimental procedures altering the probability of hypothesis
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@lastpositivist You can hold on to any hypothesis you like, no matter how many unfavorable observations, by adding ad hoc hypotheses.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@lastpositivist ...so there can be no numerical measure of the "probability" of a hypothesis. -
@bowmanthebard Well the Quine-Duhem thesis holds, yet we succeed in applying probability theory to estimate our confidence in hypothesis...
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