The branch of philosophy concerned with how (and indeed whether) evidence can confirm a hypothesis, even though typically it does not entail it. A distinction is sometimes drawn between total confirmation: how well confirmed a hypothesis is, given all available evidence and weight-of-evidence: the amount of extra confirmation added to the total confirmation of a hypothesis by a particular piece of evidence. Confirmation is often measured by the probability of a hypothesis conditional on evidence.
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(2011). Confirmation Theory. In: Sammut, C., Webb, G.I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30164-8_156
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