Duhem-Quine Problem And Its Solutions

The so called Duhem-Quine problem is raised from the point of view of holism, which questions the power of certain evidence to refute a single hypothesis since one evidence only can refute a set of hypotheses. It brings so much attention that it becomes one of the most controversial problems in modern philosophy of science, to which Popper, Lakatos and Kuhn had all proposed their different solutions. This article will give a brief presentation of these backgrounds, then introduce and appraise a new solution that bases the Bayesian methods. By comparison, the latter is more reasonable and satisfactory in my opinion.