176 INDETERMINACY

Quine's thesis of indeterminacy: roughly, theories are underdetermined by empirical evidence and there is a multitude of theories that may fit all possible evidence. How do we decide: refuting one theory/replacing it with another. It is understandable to say 'Why bother?'; but we do bother.

-> Indeterminacy 177; Theory 345, 349, 350, 351, 352; Translation 361, 362, 363;

& Anomalies 20; Experience 124, 127; Mapping 226; Projection systems 298;

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