Reasons for the failure of theories

Philosophy of Science 61 (4):529-533 (1994)
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A theory may be invalid, not owing to erroneous observations or the invocation of an inappropriate law, but because of the use of equivocal terms. This is demonstrated for Darwin's failed model of sympatric speciation through the principle of divergence

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The Idea of Teleology.Ernst Mayr - 1992 - Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (1):117-135.
Proximate and ultimate causations.Ernst Mayr - 1993 - Biology and Philosophy 8 (1):93-94.
Darwin's principle of divergence.Ernst Mayr - 1992 - Journal of the History of Biology 25 (3):343-359.
Natural selection.Leonard Darwin - 1927 - The Eugenics Review 18 (4):285.

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