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,Duhem, Quine and Grünbaum on Falsification,A number of empirically-minded philosophers hold that there is a class of ‘basic’ (or ‘protocol’) sentences each of which is, in the words of Karl Popper, “a statement of singular fact” ([3], p. 43). Many of these philosophers also maintain, with Popper, that there are empirical theories which are ‘falsifiable’ in the sense that each such theory

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,Einführung in die Welt des Neuromarketing,sical theory and pronounce it good or bad is the comparison between the consequences of this theory and the experimental laws it has to represent and classify. Now that we have minutely analyzed the characteristics of a physical experiment and of a physical law, we can establish the principles that

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77829-5r false, if and only if either (1) it is analytic or contradictory — in which case it is said to have purely logical meaning or significance — or else (2) it is capable, at least potentially, of test by experiential evidence — in which case it is said to have empirical meaning or significance. The b

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Hans-Joachim Bentz,Andreas Dierkscially Duhem. Specifically, Grünbaum has assailed the view that a single hypothesis can never be conclusively falsified. Grünbaum claims that the conventionalists’ insistence on the immunity of hypotheses from falsification is neither logically valid nor scientifically sound. Directing the weight of