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(1976) Can theories be refuted?, Dordrecht, Springer.

Is it never possible to falsify a hypothesis irrevocably?

Adolf Grünbaum

pp. 260-288

… 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.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1863-0_15

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Grünbaum, A. (1976)., Is it never possible to falsify a hypothesis irrevocably?, in S. Harding (ed.), Can theories be refuted?, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 260-288.

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