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		<title>𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹: Text replacement - &quot;\[\[Category(.*) who (.*)\]\]&quot; to &quot;&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Text replacement - &amp;quot;\[\[Category(.*) who (.*)\]\]&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''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 so. &lt;/del&gt; &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of [[underdetermination]] &lt;/del&gt;in physical [[Theory]] to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science  in physical [[Theory]] to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹</name></author>
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		<title>𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹: Text replacement - &quot;tbe&quot; to &quot;the&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Text replacement - &amp;quot;tbe&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;the&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbe &lt;/del&gt;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 so.  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. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the &lt;/ins&gt;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 so.  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. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹</name></author>
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		<title>Bacchus: Text replacement - &quot;the&quot; to &quot;tbe&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Text replacement - &amp;quot;the&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;tbe&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the &lt;/del&gt;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 so.  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. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbe &lt;/ins&gt;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 so.  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. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The &lt;/del&gt;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 so.  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. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the &lt;/ins&gt;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 so.  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. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>WikiSysop: Text replacement - &quot;]]]]&quot; to &quot;]]&quot;</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/del&gt;]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''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 so.  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. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''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 so.  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. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>WikiSysop: Text replacement - &quot;tbe&quot; to &quot;The&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Text replacement - &amp;quot;tbe&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;The&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbe &lt;/del&gt;view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;ratber &lt;/del&gt;that only a set of statements (a whole [[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbeory&lt;/del&gt;]]) can be so.  It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of [[underdetermination]] in physical [[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbeory&lt;/del&gt;]] to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]|philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]]]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The &lt;/ins&gt;view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;raTher &lt;/ins&gt;that only a set of statements (a whole [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Theory&lt;/ins&gt;]]) can be so.  It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of [[underdetermination]] in physical [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Theory&lt;/ins&gt;]] to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Bacchus: Text replacement - &quot;science&quot; to &quot;Science Category:Science&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Text replacement - &amp;quot;science&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Science &lt;a href=&quot;/index.php/Category:Science&quot; title=&quot;Category:Science&quot;&gt;Category:Science&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;science&lt;/del&gt;|philosophy of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;science&lt;/del&gt;]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is tbe view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but ratber that only a set of statements (a whole [[tbeory]]) can be so.  It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of [[underdetermination]] in physical [[tbeory]] to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Science [[Category:Science]]&lt;/ins&gt;|philosophy of &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Science [[Category:Science]]&lt;/ins&gt;]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is tbe view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but ratber that only a set of statements (a whole [[tbeory]]) can be so.  It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of [[underdetermination]] in physical [[tbeory]] to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Bacchus</name></author>
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		<title>Bacchus: Text replacement - &quot;the&quot; to &quot;tbe&quot;</title>
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		<updated>2023-02-13T23:05:57Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Text replacement - &amp;quot;the&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;tbe&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of science|philosophy of science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the &lt;/del&gt;view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rather &lt;/del&gt;that only a set of statements (a whole [[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;theory&lt;/del&gt;]]) can be so.  It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of [[underdetermination]] in physical [[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;theory&lt;/del&gt;]] to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of science|philosophy of science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbe &lt;/ins&gt;view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;ratber &lt;/ins&gt;that only a set of statements (a whole [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbeory&lt;/ins&gt;]]) can be so.  It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of [[underdetermination]] in physical [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbeory&lt;/ins&gt;]] to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Text replacement - &amp;quot;theory&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;/index.php/Theory&quot; title=&quot;Theory&quot;&gt;theory&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of science|philosophy of science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''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 so.  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. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of science|philosophy of science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''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 &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;theory&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;) can be so.  It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of [[underdetermination]] in physical &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;theory&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Bacchus</name></author>
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		<title>Bacchus: Text replacement - &quot;tbe&quot; to &quot;the&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Text replacement - &amp;quot;tbe&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;the&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of science|philosophy of science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbe &lt;/del&gt;view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;ratber &lt;/del&gt;that only a set of statements (a whole &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbeory&lt;/del&gt;) can be so.  It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of [[underdetermination]] in physical &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tbeory &lt;/del&gt;to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In [[Philosophy of science|philosophy of science]], '''confirmation holism''', also called '''epistemological holism''', is &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the &lt;/ins&gt;view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rather &lt;/ins&gt;that only a set of statements (a whole &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;theory&lt;/ins&gt;) can be so.  It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of [[underdetermination]] in physical &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;theory &lt;/ins&gt;to all knowledge claims. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;online text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;W. V. O. Quine. '[[Philosophy:Two Dogmas of Empiricism|Two Dogmas of Empiricism]].' ''The Philosophical Review'', 60 (1951), pp. 20–43. [http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html online text]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Duhem, Pierre. ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory''. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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