Pierre Duhem observed in 1906 that no scientific hypothesis can be tested in isolation. Every experimental test involves not only the hypothesis under scrutiny but a web of auxiliary assumptions about the...
You handle the conventional objection cleanly. The newer (and to me harder) objection from {AUTHOR} doesn't appear here — is that deliberate scope, or just space?
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The framing in §2 is the strongest part. Have you considered how this generalises to {EXTENSION}?
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Worth a follow-up on how this connects to Bayesian confirmation — I touched on adjacent ground in my own piece but didn't push as far as you do here. Reading it now.
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