Duhem, Quine and Grünbaum on falsification

Gary Wedeking

pp. 176-183

in: Sandra Harding (ed), Can theories be refuted?, Berlin, Springer, 1976

Abstract

divides the class of all possible basic statements unambiguously into the following two nonempty subclasses. First, the class of all those basic statements with which it is inconsistent (or which it rules out, or prohibits) secondly, the class of those basic statements which it does not contradict (or which it ‘permits’) ([3], p. 86).

Cited authors

Quine Willard Van Orman

Grünbaum Adolf

Duhem Pierre