Example sentences for: quinean

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  • In Quinean terms, in an uncontrolled study, the observation statements (about the patient's condition) and the theoretical statement (about the efficacy of the treatment) may be linked too tenuously along the radii of the web; in the extreme case, the apparent linkage may be purely by chance.

  • It is clear that for clinical experience and observational studies, there is a risk of different sorts of bias; in Quinean terms, the controls imposed by RCTs give us firmer observational checkpoints and stronger inferences from observations to conclusions, particular conclusions about interventions.

  • In Quinean terms, each of these represents a different path to the intervention question through the web of belief.

  • Experience confirms that uncontrolled studies can give different results than RCTs [ 35 36 ] ; the Quinean analysis gives a diagnosis of those differences.

  • This Quinean view, which seems to us perfectly correct, is sometimes referred to as holism , or as the Quine-Duhem thesis (for Pierre Duhem had argued for a similar view.


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