science and philosophy, an ad hoc hypothesis is a hypothesis added to a theory in order to save it from being falsified. Often, ad hoc hypothesizing is employed...

Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning literally 'for this'. In English, it typically signifies a solution for a specific purpose, problem, or task rather than...

Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning "to this". Ad hoc or Ad Hoc may also refer to: Ad Hoc at Home, a 2009 cookbook by Thomas Keller and Dave Cruz Ad hoc...

deformation from electromagnetic theory in 1888), it was considered an ad hoc hypothesis, because at this time there was no sufficient reason to assume that...

aether paradigm, FitzGerald and Lorentz independently created an ad hoc hypothesis in which the length of material bodies changes according to their...

sudden appearance of a mature chicken capable of laying eggs. This ad hoc hypothesis introduced into young-Earth creationism is unfalsifiable because it...

so because one can always burden a failing explanation with an ad hoc hypothesis. Ad hoc hypotheses are justifications that prevent theories from being...

no true Trump supporter endorses violence" exemplify the fallacy. Ad hoc hypothesis Begging the question Democrat in Name Only Epistemic commitment Equivocation...

results, but not applying the same scrutiny to other categories. Ad hoc hypothesis Cherry picking (fallacy) Courtier's reply Exception that proves the...

experiment. Popper identified four such stratagems: introducing an ad hoc hypothesis that makes the refuting evidence seem irrelevant; modifying the ostensive...

article showed a good match, thus supporting the (corrected) hypothesis. This ad hoc hypothesis alteration might be considered an example of the Texas sharpshooter...

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structure not exogenously given, but equilibrium is reached without an ad hoc hypothesis on the behavior of firms, say using reaction functions in a duopoly...

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of matter in motion with respect to the aether was considered an ad hoc hypothesis. If length contraction of L {\textstyle L} is inserted into the above...

it as "the biggest blunder in my career". At the time, it was an ad hoc hypothesis to add in the cosmological constant, as it was only intended to justify...

correspond to its purported host plant, it was "simply dismissed with an ad hoc hypothesis and manifestly incorrect explanation" by Hébert and his coworkers...

necessary reason and length contraction consequently remained an ad hoc hypothesis. Lorentz (1892a) set the foundations of Lorentz aether theory, by...

practice of "presenting a post hoc hypothesis in the introduction of a research report as if it were an a priori hypothesis". Hence, a key characteristic...

duplication of the effort and effectively making this whole theory an ad hoc hypothesis. Critics point out that Fomenko's discussion of astronomical phenomena...

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phrase cum hoc ergo propter hoc ('with this, therefore because of this'). This differs from the fallacy known as post hoc ergo propter hoc ("after this...

The just-world hypothesis, or just-world fallacy, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily...

could not at the time be explained in terms of Prout's hypothesis. Some came up with the ad hoc claim that the basic unit was one-half of a hydrogen atom...

conjunctions Cum hoc ergo propter hoc – Refutation of a logical fallacyPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Post hoc ergo propter hoc – Fallacy...

Often one tests a null hypothesis of no correlation between two variables, and chooses in advance to reject the hypothesis if the correlation computed...

argument types Lived experience – Phenomenological concept Post hoc ergo propter hoc – Fallacy of assumption of causality based on sequence of events...

proposed morphological correspondences between Elamite and Dravidian to be ad hoc, and found them to be lacking phonological motivation. Similar criticisms...