The phrase "a degree of confirmation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the level of certainty or validation regarding a statement, finding, or hypothesis.
Example: "The results of the experiment provided a degree of confirmation for the initial theory proposed by the researchers."
Alternatives: "a level of assurance" or "a measure of validation."
It can be shown that in general m* yields a degree of confirmation c* that allows learning from experience.
They evolved around the ideas of a ratio of possibilities, a relative frequency of events, a degree of belief, or a degree of confirmation.
The passage following, in which hypotheses are characterized as "poison" would then refer to hypotheses which have not attained a degree of confirmation that would make them morally certain.
Thus, our pathway-based method shows a degree of confirmation to a purely sequence-based analysis of mutational events.
This at least offers a degree of confirmation that the variability of background illnesses beach-to-beach among non-swimmers is typical, either as observed prior to 1986 with respect to the HCGI case definition or more recently with NGI.
Carnap granted the importance of this concept (especially in modern physical theories) but attempted, in increasingly refined and often revised forms, to define a concept of degree-of-confirmation that was purely logical.
Despite the failure of the official project, however, he argued in detail for a connection between confirmation and probability, showing that, given certain apparently reasonable assumptions, the degree-of-confirmation function must satisfy the axioms of the probability calculus.
These features allow prediction of solar proton events in advance (from several hours to several tens of hours) with a high degree of confirmation.
In his examination of contemporaneous political beliefs, Hook's approach did not aim at the demonstration of conclusions as hypotheses with a high degree of confirmation that would take their place as progressive or convergent steps toward the ultimate truths of the social sciences.
It seems that E's being true would provide a greater degree of confirmation for H if the truth of E had been predicted by H than if H had been developed to accommodate the truth of E. There is no general agreement among Bayesians about how to resolve this problem.
Overall, there was a moderate degree of confirmation of the events by the interviewer.
