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单词 ad hoc hypothesis
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ad hoc hypothesis


ad hoc hypothesis

any hypothesis added to an explanatory theory merely to save that theory from potentially refuting evidence. In Popper's FALSIFICATIONISM, ad hoc hypotheses are regarded as illegitimate. He cites Marx and Freud as examples of social thinkers using hypotheses in this way to protect their theories from refutation.

ad hoc hypothesis


ad hoc hypothesis

An hypothesis added to accepted scientific dogma to account for unexplained anomalies in the paradigm and are more common in pseudoscientific doctrines—e.g., behavioural genetics or aromatherapy. An increase in ad hoc hypotheses may presage a paradigm shift and new explanations which encompass what were anomalies under the prior paradigm.
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