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underdetermination
Idea in the philosophy of science
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In the philosophy of science, underdetermination or the underdetermination of theory by data is the idea that evidence available to us at a given time may be insufficient to determine what beliefs we should hold in response to it. The underdetermination thesis states that all evidence necessarily underdetermines any scientific theory.