The light at the end of the tunneling: Observation and underdetermination

Philosophy of Science 66 (3):58 (1999)
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If observation is 'theory-laden', how can there be 'observationally equivalent theories'? How can the observations 'laden' by one theory be 'the same as' those 'laden' by another? The answer might lie in the expressibility of observationally equivalent theories in a common mathematical formalism.

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