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Noun Concept
Categories: Epistemology stubs, Scientific skepticism, Hypotheses, Epistemology of science, Razors (philosophy)
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ad hoc hypothesis  ad hoc hypotheses  ad hoc hypothesizing  ad hoc rescue  Ad hoc save fallacy
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In science and philosophy, an ad hoc hypothesis is a hypothesis added to a theory in order to save it from being falsified. Wikipedia
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In science and philosophy, an ad hoc hypothesis is a hypothesis added to a theory in order to save it from being falsified. Wikipedia
A sometimes dubious method of dealing with anomalies in philosophy and science Wikipedia Disambiguation
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ad hoc hypothesis
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ad hoc hypothesis
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ad hoc hypotheses, ad hoc hypothesizing, ad hoc rescue, Ad hoc save fallacy
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deus ex machina

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