
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1976
Pages: 260-288
Series: Synthese Library
ISBN (Hardback): 9789027706300
Full citation:
, "Is it never possible to falsify a hypothesis irrevocably?", in: Can theories be refuted?, Berlin, Springer, 1976


Is it never possible to falsify a hypothesis irrevocably?
pp. 260-288
in: Sandra Harding (ed), Can theories be refuted?, Berlin, Springer, 1976Abstract
… the physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test but only a whole group of hypotheses; when the experiment is in disagreement with his predictions, what he learns is that at least one of the hypotheses constituting this group is unacceptable and ought to be modified; but the experiment does not designate which one should be changed (my italics)1.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1976
Pages: 260-288
Series: Synthese Library
ISBN (Hardback): 9789027706300
Full citation:
, "Is it never possible to falsify a hypothesis irrevocably?", in: Can theories be refuted?, Berlin, Springer, 1976