[U]n symbole n'est, à proprement parler, ni vrai, ni faux; … - Pierre Duhem

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[U]n symbole n'est, à proprement parler, ni vrai, ni faux; il est plus ou moins bien choisi pour signifier la réalité qu'il représente, il la figure d'une manière plus ou moins précise, plus ou moins détaillée...

Pierre Duhem

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Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (10 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. Duhem also made major contributions to the science of his day, particularly in the fields of hydrodynamics, elasticity, and thermodynamics.

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Pen Names: Ch. Clérice

Alternative Names: Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem • Pierre Maurice Duhem

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« La Logique peut être patiente, car elle est éternelle. »
("Logic can be patient because it is eternal.")
ibid. p. 150

Now, a symbol is not, properly speaking, either true or false; it is, rather, something more or less well selected to stand for the reality it represents, and pictures that reality in a more or less precise, or a more or less detailed manner.

Agreement with experiment is the sole criteria of truth for a physical theory.

[U]n symbole n'est, à proprement parler, ni vrai, ni faux; il est plus ou moins bien choisi pour signifier la réalité qu'il représente, il la figure … - Pierre Duhem

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