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Experimentum crucis — Wikipedia (en)

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In science, an experimentum crucis (English: crucial experiment or critical experiment) is an experiment capable of decisively determining whether or not a particular hypothesis or theory is superior to all others whose acceptance is currently widespread in the scientific community. In particular, such an experiment—if true—must typically be able to produce a result that rules out all other hypotheses or theories, thereby demonstrating that under the conditions of the experiment (i.e., under the same external circumstances and for the same "input variables" within the experiment), those hypotheses and theories are proven false but the experimenter's hypothesis is not ruled out. An opposite view, rejecting the decisive value of the experimentum crucis in choosing one hypothesis or theory over its rivals, is the Duhem–Quine thesis.

Tema degli esploratori: storia e filosofia della scienza (deposito sistematico; ricerca «scientific method»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Experimentum crucis» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimentum_crucis
Wikidata Q1384471 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1384471
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimentum_crucis?action=history).
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