Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (French: [pjɛʁ mɔʁis maʁi dy.ɛm, – moʁ-] ; 9 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French theoretical physicist who worked on...
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In philosophy of science, the Duhem–Quine thesis, also called the Duhem–Quine problem, posits that it is impossible to experimentally test a scientific...
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phenomena. The equation is named after Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Duhem. Deriving the Gibbs–Duhem equation from the fundamental thermodynamic equation is...
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meanings. The concept of thermodynamic potentials was introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1886. Josiah Willard Gibbs in his papers used the term fundamental...
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Scientific formalism (section Duhem)
constructive empiricism. A physicist who took the issues involved seriously was Pierre Duhem, writing at the beginning of the twentieth century. He wrote an extended...
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Confirmation holism (redirect from Duhem's problem)
his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of underdetermination in physical theory to all knowledge claims. Duhem's idea was, roughly, that no...
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the German physicist Rudolf Clausius and French physicist Pierre Duhem. The Clausius–Duhem inequality can be expressed in integral form as d d t ( ∫ Ω...
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The Duhem–Margules equation, named for Pierre Duhem and Max Margules, is a thermodynamic statement of the relationship between the two components of a...
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these laws. Instrumentalism is a perspective originally introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1906. Rejecting scientific realism's ambitions to uncover metaphysical...
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Pierre Joseph Duhem (8 July 1758 – 24 March 1807) was a French physician and politician. Son of a weaver, he was born in Lille. He was study supervisor...
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