Evaluation-confirmation

Evaluation of carbapenemase screening and confirmation tests in

Confirmation Theory

Predictions about the future and unrestricted universal generalizations are never logically implied by our observational evidence, which is limited to particular facts in the present and past. Nevertheless, propositions of these and other kinds are often said to be confirmed by observational evidence. A natural place to begin the study of confirmation theory is to consider what it means to say ...

Confirmation Colloquium

• Elaborate and build upon a growing body of sociological knowledge concerned with cultural resistance and oppositional cultures • Emphasise the significance of human agency in mediating progressive social change • Analyse the innovative ways in which subordinated minority social groups, in this case indigenous Australians, negotiate ‘bi-culturality’, that is, the interface between indigenous c...

Confirmation Theory

Confirmation theory is the study of the logic by which scientific hypotheses may be confirmed or disconfirmed (or supported or refuted) by evidence. A specific theory of confirmation is a proposal for such a logic. Presumably the epistemic evaluation of scientific hypotheses should largely depend on their empirical content — on what they say the evidentially accessible parts of the world are li...

Focused Correlation and Confirmation

This essay presents results about a deviation from independence measure called focused correlation. This measure explicates the formal relationship between probabilistic dependence of an evidence set and the incremental confirmation of a hypothesis, resolves a basic question underlying Peter Klein and Ted Warfield’s ‘truth-conduciveness’ problem for Bayesian coherentism, and provides a qualifie...