Duhem-Quine problem

English Duhem-Quine thesis Etymology Named after French physicist Pierre Duhem and American logician Willard Van Orman Quine, who wrote about similar concepts. Proper noun 1 en philosophy The problem that it is impossible to experimentally test a scientific hypothesis in isolation, because every empirical test requires one or more background assumptions. Translations problem that a hypothesis cannot be tested in isolation from background assumptions Japanese: ja デュエム＝クワイン問題 en eponyms