Dictionary, including "ad hoc", not be italicized. In science and philosophy, ad hoc means the addition of extraneous hypotheses to a theory to save it...
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proven wrong by using ad hoc hypotheses (e.g., by adding "they are invisible", then "their motives are complex", and so on). Often, ad hoc hypothesizing is...
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hypotheses based on data already observed Post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this), a logical fallacy of causation "Post Hoc...
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covers everything from novel hypotheses, which can be tested utilizing the scientific method to wild ad hoc hypotheses and mumbo jumbo. This has resulted...
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because one can always burden a failing explanation with an ad hoc hypothesis. Ad hoc hypotheses are justifications that prevent theories from being falsified...
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induce ad hoc hypotheses from their current results. Another view is that HARKing represents a form of prediction in which researchers deduce hypotheses from...
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alternatives, because one can always burden failing explanations with ad hoc hypotheses to prevent them from being falsified; therefore, simpler theories...
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it was developed and marketed... EMDR proponents have come up with ad hoc hypotheses to explain away unfavorable results that do not support its theory...
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pseudoscientific biorhythm theory [p. 174–175]...we can eliminate ad hoc hypotheses (i.e. arbitrariness) that are the hallmark of all pseudosciences (astrology...
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Mantle plume (section Alternative hypotheses)
state of the evidence for mantle plumes and the proliferation of ad hoc hypotheses drove a number of geologists, led by Don L. Anderson, Gillian Foulger...
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follow Popper's falsificationism, which suggests that we do not use ad hoc hypotheses. Aristotle's theory of motion was a part of a broader theory of change...
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out, Popper argues that the theory avoided falsification by adding ad hoc hypotheses that made it compatible with the facts. Because of this, Popper asserted...
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Uses highly consilient and simple theories. Nonsimple theories: many ad hoc hypotheses. Progresses over time: develops new theories that explain new facts...
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Correlation does not imply causation (redirect from Cum hoc ergo propter hoc)
phrase cum hoc ergo propter hoc ('with this, therefore because of this'). This differs from the fallacy known as post hoc ergo propter hoc ("after this...
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state of the evidence for mantle plumes and the proliferation of ad hoc hypotheses drove a number of geologists, led by Don L. Anderson, Gillian Foulger...
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Anthropic principle (category Astronomical hypotheses)
of time, makes it unnecessary to adopt any "ad hoc" hypotheses about the initial entropy state, hypotheses other Big Bang theories require. String theory...
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argues that the theory was saved from falsification by the addition of ad hoc hypotheses which attempted to make it compatible with the facts. By this means...
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borne out, the theory was saved from falsification by the addition of ad hoc hypotheses which made it compatible with the facts. By this means, Popper asserted...
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empirical observation by the addition of a sufficient number of suitable ad hoc hypotheses. Karl Popper accepted this thesis, leading him to reject naïve falsification...
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the nucleus. At first these problems were brushed aside by adding ad hoc hypotheses to classical physics. Soon, it became apparent that a new theory must...
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attempted explanation however requires a constant accumulation of ad hoc hypotheses, he acknowledges the wish for a simpler explanation. Only the mud...
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elasticity—how objects behave under stresses, pressures, and loads— employed ad hoc hypotheses to solve specific problems. It was during the nineteenth century that...
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conjunctions Cum hoc ergo propter hoc – Refutation of a logical fallacyPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Post hoc ergo propter hoc – Fallacy...
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belief if they would really like to (for example, with help from ad hoc hypotheses). One belief can be held fixed, and other beliefs will be altered...
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episodes to celebrate or promote books such as Soonish. Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses (BAHFest) is a festival, started in 2013, where people present humorous...
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theories can only be made consistent with relativity by introducing ad hoc hypotheses. In more recent papers (2005, 2006) Will referred to those experiments...
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says: tend to focus more on confirming than on refuting hypotheses, casually invoke ad hoc hypotheses (escape hatches) as a means of immunizing their claims...
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not been formulated, but common sense objections to such elaborate and ad hoc implicit auxiliary assumptions were urged. To begin with, the mechanism...
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immobile aether theory of Lorentz, the introduction of a variety ad hoc hypotheses was required, such as the contraction hypothesis, local time, the...
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redundant to statement # A falsified theory can be rescued by employing ad hoc hypotheses, but this comes at the cost of a reduced scientific status for the...
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