Underdetermination of Scientific Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

[C]ontrastive underdetermination involves the quite different possibility that for any body of evidence confirming a theory, there might well be other theories that are also well confirmed by that very same body of evidence.

 

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