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- Title
Empirical equivalence, underdetermination, and systems of the world.
- Authors
Hoefer, Carl; Rosenberg, Alexander
- Abstract
Shows how some treatments of underdetermination are vitiated by failure to observe the distinction between underdetermination of theory by evidence and holism in world systems. Comparison between the two concepts; Empirical equivalence; Possibility or inevitability of empirically equivalent, empirically adequate systems of the world.
- Subjects
EMPIRICISM; SYSTEMS theory; HOLISM
- Publication
Philosophy of Science, 1994, Vol 61, Issue 4, p592
- ISSN
0031-8248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/289824