Sentence examples for judgments of confirmation from inspiring English sources

Hempel (1965 91 922) gives a modified account of Rudner's argument by distinguishing between judgments of confirmation, which are free of contextual values, and judgments of acceptance.

The difference between the Bayesian approach and Carnap's lies in the philosophical motivation, and in the different understanding of confirmation judgments: for Carnap, they are primarily a consequence of certain logical ways of carving the world at its joints; for the Bayesian, they express a genuinely subjective uncertainty judgment.

Laura Garavini, chief representative on the parliamentary anti-mafia commission of Italy's biggest opposition group, the Democratic party, said the judgment offered confirmation of "the very dark shadows hanging over the construction of Silvio Berlusconi's vast business empire, which was decisive too for the subsequent birth of Forza Italia".

That's the kind of judgment that confirmation theory must capture, and which remains unattainable for the predictivist Bayesian.

Be aware of the danger of confirmation bias, and acknowledge that our judgment can be clouded by it.

In fact, no other notion of confirmation considered so far provides a general foundation for this judgment.

If doctors examined images after an AI machine, Golby added, there was a risk of confirmation bias, with doctors assuming the machine's diagnosis was correct, overriding their own judgment.

Four Republicans voted in favor of confirmation.

Sotomayor is on the verge of confirmation.

It was a sort of confirmation.

In the absence of confirmation discretion ruled.