Please, tell me again how Quine's holism was a huge blow to positivist philosophy of science.
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@lastpositivist ...so there can be no numerical measure of the "probability" of a hypothesis.
@bowmanthebard ... so judging by practical success, whatever the upshot of Quine-Duhem, it can't be rendering probability inapplicable
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@lastpositivist Personally, I see no practical successes in that! -
@bowmanthebard Well here's my favourite example of practical success of subjective probability in the sciences: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21280965 ...
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