Assertion: evidence | /r/CapableOf | bear on theory
Facets:
value: with the theory’s own entailments
type: OTHER
value: with empirical consequences
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: To the extent that evidence which bears on a theory does not admit of a neutral characterization among those with sufficiently different theoretical commitments, this threatens to limit the ability of such evidence to successfully discharge the role of neutral arbiter in such cases.
text: Laudan and Leplin suggest that we have invited the specter of rampant underdetermination only by failing to keep this familiar home truth in mind and instead implausibly identifying the evidence bearing on a theory exclusively with the theory’s own entailments or empirical consequences (but cf.
text: For it is now appreciated that, at any given time, which theories are accepted—or more weakly, which theories are taken to be plausible hypotheses—typically plays a crucial role in guiding the subsequent search for evidence which bears on those theories.