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Philosophy of science

the idea that any body of evidence is compatible with more than one theory, so data alone cannot settle which is true.

In philosophy of science, underdetermination refers to the idea that any body of evidence is compatible with more than one theory, so data alone cannot settle which is true. This meaning comes from Quine (1975) in Erkenntnis.[1]

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Quine, W. V. (1975). On empirically equivalent systems of the world. Erkenntnis, 9(3), 313-328. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00178004

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