Confirmational Holism is the epistemological thesis that scientific theories are confirmed or disconfirmed as holistic units, such that individual statements or hypotheses cannot be tested in isolation but only in conjunction with auxiliary assumptions and background knowledge.
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Russell Trenholme, Jerry A. Fodor, Ernest Lepore · Noûs · 1994 · 429 citations
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Christian Joas, Shaul Katzir · 2011 · 131 citations
Confirmational Holism and Bayesian Epistemology
David Christensen · Philosophy of Science · 1992 · 83 citations · Full text
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Johannes Lenhard, Eric Winsberg · 2010 · 30 citations
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