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work_3dwu7mjyzjg37o44nzdzszasgm	Gregory R. Wheeler	Error Statistics and Duhem's Problem	2000	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5471	368	66	No one has a well developed solution to Duhem's problem, the problem of how experimental evidence warrants revision of our theories. Deborah Mayo proposes a solution to Duhem's problem in route to her more ambitious program of providing a It turns out that Mayo's purported solution to Duhem's problem is very significant to her project, for the epistemic license claimed by ES So, according to Duhem, treating experimental evidence as if it determined which statement is to blame is mistaken. Mayo's proposal stems from her Error Statistics account of experimental Mayo adopts Karl Popper's slogan that we learn the most about hypotheses which are severely tested. severe tests, then h is not shown to be in error as a result of e'. auxiliary statements in F there are, in principle, an infinite number of tests. This leaves a few auxiliaries that are controlled (like instrument error) and the test hypothesis 	./cache/work_3dwu7mjyzjg37o44nzdzszasgm.pdf	./txt/work_3dwu7mjyzjg37o44nzdzszasgm.txt