But if we examine the way the expression, say, "she fancied or she imagined she saw an Egyptian Mau" works, we will see that we have no trouble using or understanding this expression; we know the kind of circumstances in which it is appropriate or not; in which it would be confirmed or challenged, and none of this requires theoretical knowledge or knowledge of causal processes.
Hempel's most controversial argument appeared in an article about induction entitled "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation" (1945a), where he evaluates the conditions under which an empirical generalization would be confirmed or disconfirmed by instances or non-instances of its antecedent and consequent.
The second round of talks was guided mainly by the concept of parity, by which a broad equality in destructive power would be confirmed.
Unfortunately Medicare data do not include DXA test results, which would be required to confirm this interpretation.
There are so far, however, no quantitative neuropathological studies of the hippocampus in SUDEP, which would be needed to confirm any subtle abnormalities such as microdysgenesis.
Other limitations include the absence of a larger sample across other public and private hospitals in Pakistan, which would be necessary to confirm the findings of our study and, lastly, as is the case with most qualitative research, researcher bias may be involved in category development.
It was considered feasible to do a study with 59 scrapie-affected sheep conducted over four years, which would be sufficient to confirm transmission if 5% of sheep (with 95% confidence interval) excreted the scrapie agent and transmitted disease to a milk-fed lamb.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate and set up a diagnostic approach of positive blood cultures to enable a faster preliminary reporting of a group of the most common GPC, which would be followed by confirming and complementary reports later that same day.
In spite of the small sample size, the observation of an OR of greater than 3.5 for the MTHFR genotype and PAD suggests an association of notably strong magnitude which would be of interest to confirm in future studies.
In addition, illness will not be laboratory confirmed, which would be a more objective and specific outcome measure than monitoring of diarrhea and colds by parents.
