Earman on underdetermination and empirical indistinguishability

DOI10.1023/A:1005437217700zbMATH Open0961.03534OpenAlexW1580696995MaRDI QIDQ1583750FDOQ1583750

Authors: Igor Douven, Leon Horsten 

Publication date: 5 March 2001

Published in: Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005437217700

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zbMATH Keywords

empirical indistinguishabilityscientific anti-realismunderdetermination of theory choice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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• A principled solution to Fitch's paradox
• Reckoning the Shape of Everything: Underdetermination and Cosmotopology
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