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INDETERMINACY
Author: Art & Language Posted: 08.06.2001; 18:10:18 Topic: INDETERMINACY Msg #: 176 (top msg in thread) Enclosure: Prev/Next: 175/177 Reads: 18966
176 INDETERMINACY Quine's thesis of indeterminacy: roughly, theories are underdetermined by empirical evidence and there is a multitude of theories that may fit all possible evidence. How do we decide: refuting one theory/replacing it with another. It is understandable to say 'Why bother?'; but we do bother.-> Indeterminacy 177; Theory 345, 349, 350, 351, 352; Translation 361, 362, 363;
& Anomalies 20; Experience 124, 127; Mapping 226; Projection systems 298;