NATS 1860 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-6: James Clerk Maxwell, Wind Wave, Underdetermination
20 Feb 2015
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Disconfirmation (deduction): for the hypothesis to be true, something must have occurred. Atomism: particles at the basis that cannot be broken. Sublunary realm: earth, air, water, and fire; movement is in straight lines: 4 elements, motion in straight lines. Supralunary realm: ether; movement is in perfect circles, objects are spherical: 5th element- ether, circular motion, spherical bodies. Chapter 5: the quine-duhem thesis and implications for. According to the quine-duhem thesis, tests of a hypothesis are typically not tests of the individual"s hypothesis, but, rather, are tests of groups or collections of beliefs. Quine believed that any belief is subject to revision. Duhem, however, believed that although tests might involve large collections of beliefs, it"s not typically our entire collection of beliefs that"s put to the test. Despite both their differences, there"s a general agreement that tests aren"t typically tests of a hypothesis in isolation, but instead are typically tests of large bodies of beliefs.
