The philosophical task here is to adapt one of the existing approaches to confirmation (Bayesianism or eliminativism, for example) to the complex contexts Kuhn presents or, if that cannot be done, to formulate new methodological rules, rules that can be defended as conditions of rationality that will apply to these contexts.
Using existing knowledge about a GRN as a baseline model, we systematically scan the genome for additional components and improve our understanding of the existing GRN in a context that enables interpretation and confirmation.
As a career, science would hold very little appeal if all it entailed were the confirmation of existing knowledge or the memorization of long lists of well-established facts.
Some psychology researchers argue that a scientific culture that too heavily favors new and counterintuitive ideas over the confirmation of existing results has led to too many findings that are striking for their novelty and published in respected journals but are nonetheless false.
The mixed results have turned the images into a sort of cosmic Rorschach test, with some scientists seeing confirmation of existing theories, and others seeing the first dark hints that those theories are -- if not entirely wrong -- at least in need of serious revision.
On the other hand, confirmation of existing BMI loci, and detailed analysis on their association with obesity as a binary trait and with other obesity-related quantitative traits, are important at the current stage to move GWAS signals forward and understand their functional consequences.
Furthermore, this feature has also allowed the verification and confirmation of existing annotation.
When asked in the final workshop to sum up their learning from the course, responses included: confirmation of existing practice; heightened confidence; and increased ability to deal with death and dying residents.
Confirmation bias in medical terminology refers to the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.
Which on balance is more a confirmation of existing legends than a revelation.
