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1) The document discusses the "underdetermination thesis", which claims that evidence cannot uniquely determine the content of scientific theories. 2) The author argues that the underdetermination thesis relies on an oversimplified view of induction and evidence. Accounts of induction do not universally support the thesis. 3) Displaying examples of theories that make identical predictions does not prove the thesis, as such examples may just be different formulations of the same underlying theory. The di
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