Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (French: [pjɛʁ mɔʁis maʁi dy.ɛm, – moʁ-] ; 9 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French theoretical physicist who worked on...
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falsifications are impossible. It is named after French theoretical physicist Pierre Duhem and American logician Willard Van Orman Quine, who wrote about similar...
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phenomena. The equation is named after Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Duhem. Deriving the Gibbs–Duhem equation from the fundamental thermodynamic equation is...
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meanings. The concept of thermodynamic potentials was introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1886. Josiah Willard Gibbs in his papers used the term fundamental...
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Confirmation holism (redirect from Duhem's problem)
his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of underdetermination in physical theory to all knowledge claims. Duhem's idea was, roughly, that no...
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Scientific formalism (section Duhem)
constructive empiricism. A physicist who took the issues involved seriously was Pierre Duhem, writing at the beginning of the twentieth century. He wrote an extended...
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The Duhem–Margules equation, named for Pierre Duhem and Max Margules, is a thermodynamic statement of the relationship between the two components of a...
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the German physicist Rudolf Clausius and French physicist Pierre Duhem. The Clausius–Duhem inequality can be expressed in integral form as d d t ( ∫ Ω...
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these laws. Instrumentalism is a perspective originally introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1906. Rejecting scientific realism's ambitions to uncover metaphysical...
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Pierre Joseph Duhem (8 July 1758 – 24 March 1807) was a French physician and politician. Son of a weaver, he was born in Lille. He was study supervisor...
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Ernst Mach, David Hilbert, French conventionalism (Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem), Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Albert Einstein...
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Continuity thesis (section Duhem)
rather than contrast between medieval and modern thought, begins with Pierre Duhem, the French physicist and philosopher of science. It is set out in his...
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Dewey (1859–1952). Pragmatism. Jane Addams (1860–1935). Pragmatist. Pierre Duhem (1861–1916). Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925). Anthroposophy Alfred North Whitehead...
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theory of science can only be understood in its entirety, introduced by Pierre Duhem. Different total theories of science are understood by making them commensurable...
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distinction. The French philosopher Pierre Duhem espoused a broader conventionalist view encompassing all of science. Duhem was skeptical that human perceptions...
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pressure and volume for example. The law is named after Willard Gibbs and Pierre Duhem. There are many relationships that follow mathematically from the above...
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for the Scientific Revolution of the Early Modern Period. According to Pierre Duhem, who founded the academic study of medieval science as a critique of...
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remembered for the Mercalli intensity scale for measuring earthquakes. Pierre Duhem (1861–1916): worked on Thermodynamic potentials and wrote histories advocating...
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of science Pierre Duhem and Anneliese Maier both saw Buridan as playing an important role in the demise of Aristotelian cosmology. Duhem even called...
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Feyerabend, and was probably first put forth (at least implicitly) by Pierre Duhem about 50 years earlier. Semantic theory-ladenness refers to the impact...
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have been active in the sciences. Some historians of science such as Pierre Duhem credit medieval Catholic mathematicians and philosophers such as John...
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Pierre de Fermat, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Alessandro Volta, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Pierre Duhem, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Alois...
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"less than enthusiastic papal approval of the bishop of Paris' actions." Pierre Duhem considered that these condemnations "destroyed certain essential foundations...
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contributions to the development of science. Historians of science such as Pierre Duhem credit medieval Catholic mathematicians and philosophers such as John...
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theoretical system.[citation needed] In fact, according to the Duhem–Quine thesis, after Pierre Duhem and W.V. Quine, it is impossible to test a theory in isolation...
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manner, one can determine if a process would occur spontaneously. Also Pierre Duhem in the 19th century wrote about chemical thermodynamics. During the early...
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choosing one hypothesis or theory over its rivals, is the Duhem–Quine thesis; see also Pierre Duhem § Philosophy of science. Francis Bacon in his Novum Organum...
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Sanders Peirce Edmund Husserl Frederich Engels Nikola Tesla Henri Poincaré Pierre Duhem Niels Bohr Albert Einstein Bertrand Russell Frank P. Ramsey Moritz Schlick...
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in his Conjectures and Refutations. W. V. O. Quine and Pierre Duhem went even further. The Duhem–Quine thesis states that it is impossible to experimentally...
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2015-10-16. Jouguet, Jacques Charles Émile (1917). L'Œuvre scientifique de Pierre Duhem, Doin. von Neumann, John (1942). Progress report on "Theory of Detonation...
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