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Duhem I 285
Principles/Poincaré/Duhem: Poincaré claims regarding the principles of mechanics: never will a new experiment lead to abandon them. The operation which is to compare them with the facts has no meaning.
E.g. principle of inertia. You can only give it a meaning if you consider a certain relationship point as chosen ...
Cf. >Foundation.
I 289
Duhem: It would only lead to public places, if one were to say that the conditions were almost commensurable: for everything in the world is almost commensurable. Any arbitrary incommensurable relationship is always approximately commensurable.
It would be absurd to want to subject certain principles of mechanics to the direct control of the experiment. Does it follow that these hypotheses cannot be achieved by experimental contradictions? No!
Principles/Poincaré: "The experiment can build up the principles of mechanics, but not destroy them".
>Principles/Duhem.

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