The "underdetermination thesis"

A) is the thesis that all scientific theory is underdetermined and can be used to prove anything.

B) Is the thesis that some scientific theory is underdetermined and can be used to prove more than one hypothesis.

C) is used to explain why we will never know whether evolution is true or not.

D) is the thesis that science is underdetermined and we will come to understand all science in time.


B

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