Assertion: confirmation | /r/HasProperty | whole battery of hypotheses
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: As Duhem and Quine noted, confirmation is holistic in the sense that it is always a whole battery of hypotheses that is put to test, and the arrow of error usually does not point to a single hypothesis (Duhem 1906/1974, Quine 1953).