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Confirmation holism - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Idea in the philosophy of science In philosophy of science , confirmation holism , or epistemological holism , is the view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but rather that only a set of statements (a whole theory) can be. It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem 's problem of underdetermination in physical theory to all knowledge claims. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Duhem's idea was roughly that no theory of any type

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