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We owe to Professor Haller the forceful reminder that the common habit of designating a central plank of post-positivist philosophy of science, the “Duhem-Quine Thesis”, misses out a most important “positivist” link. To rectify the situation Haller coined the expression the “Neurath Principle”.
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Uebel, T.E. (1997). From the Duhem Thesis to the Neurath Principle. In: Lehrer, K., Marek, J.C. (eds) Austrian Philosophy Past and Present. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 190. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5720-9_7
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