The ________ hypothesis refers to an escape hatch or a loophole that defenders of a theory or belief can use to insulate their belief from falsification.
a. ad hoc immunizing
b. confirmatory
c. representativeness
d. availability heuristic
Ad hoc immunizing, which is a hypothesis added to a theory in order to save it from being falsified. Some times is employed to compensate for anomalies not anticipated by the theory in its unmodified form
