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> if you find just one experiment that goes against your model, you immediately invalidate the model

Pierre Duhem would like to have a word with you:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-underdetermina...

> Holist underdetermination ensures, Duhem argues, that there cannot be any such thing as a “crucial experiment”: a single experiment whose outcome is predicted differently by two competing theories and which therefore serves to definitively confirm one and refute the other.



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