If an appearance of pain can be given to me despite the fact that I am not in pain, and the appearance makes probable or is best explained by the fact that I am actually experiencing pain, then perhaps I have some justification for believing that I am in pain.
But while an acquittal was made more probable by the shift to Albany, it was not necessarily assured, though critics are bound to disagree.
It was made more probable by Germany's rising power and the fear that this created in Great Britain.
But it was also made more probable by Germany's fearful response to Russia's power, as well as myriad other factors, including human errors.
As a consequence, selection effects cannot be excluded, although they can be made less probable by appropriate statistical controls.
Theories can be corroborated by their passing severe tests, but they are not thereby inductively confirmed or made more probable.
Belisarius' invasion fleet of 533 was apparently at least partly fitted with lateen sails, making it probable that by the time the lateen had become the standard rig for the dromon, with the traditional square sail gradually falling from use in medieval navigation.
If hypotheses, generalizations, and theories can be made more or less probable by whatever evidence is available, he argued, then they are factually meaningful.
But they did take place, & given the extent of the dikes (2700 mi ., & the number of bombing sorties daily over N.V. (about 300), & the probable error made by the pilots (quite substantial, in writer's judgment), the dike damage was bound to take place.
The gold standard used to test the validity of the questionnaire was the face to face diagnosis of probable MOH made by headache specialists, based on the second edition of the ICHD-II.
