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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Energeticism (section Duhem's energetics)
during the end of the 19th century by Wilhelm Ostwald, Georg Helm and Pierre Duhem. It was also promoted by physicist Ernst Mach who opposed atomic theory...
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Thermodynamic potential (section Gibbs–Duhem relation)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ernst Mach, David Hilbert, French conventionalism (Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem), Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Albert Einstein...
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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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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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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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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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wrote the review for Nature. Pierre Duhem published a critical essay outlining mistakes he found in Maxwell's Treatise. Duhem's book was reviewed in Nature...
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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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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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"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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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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the latter always remained constrained by the brute fact in question. Pierre Duhem argued that just as there may be several scientific descriptions of the...
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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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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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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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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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contributed to scientific research. Some historians of science, such as Pierre Duhem, attribute the origins of modern science to medieval Catholic scholars...
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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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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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