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Apparently, it is by means of this kind of confirmation by instances that one can obtain supporting evidence for statements such as "sodium salts burn yellow", "wolves live in a pack", or "planets move in elliptical orbits" (also see Russell 1912, Ch. 6).
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"If you need that kind of confirmation, lots of people are there to tell you it's O.K., because they're addicted, too".
(Psychologists call this kind of cognitive cherry-picking "confirmation bias": confirming what you expect to find by selectively accepting or ignoring information).
"This is going to be a kind of confirmation bias for a lot of people," she said.
You can add that you would like to make sure that the hiring manager received your materials if you didn't get any kind of confirmation of receipt; this is a sneaky way of following up.
These received a kind of confirmation this week when, without the Indonesian government's permission, the UN said it would send a mission to West Timor to investigate the killings of its staff there, ignoring the attempts of Alwi Shihab, the foreign minister, to stop the visit.
Results of genome expression using proteome analysis require some kind of confirmation, but, remarkably, current technology expends nearly as much effort in confirming a suspected gene expression identity.
Let's get started — we're going to need to do a kind of Confirmation Trial.
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