Pierre Duhem's the aim and structure of
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Roberto Maiocchi
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Article
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1990
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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I reject the widely held view that Duhem's 1906 book La Thgorie physique is a statement of instrumentalistic conventionalism, motivated by the scientific crisis at the end of the nineteenth century. By considering Duhem's historical context I show that his epistemological views were already formed b