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  • curprev 13:5613:56, 16 January 2023Bacchus talk contribs 865 bytes +865 Created page with "In 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. <ref nam..."