id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2eiffvet7bcell3umgnqrztzba Franz Huber What Is the Point of Confirmation? 2005 17 .pdf application/pdf 5808 700 75 absolute and incremental Bayesian confirmation theory answer this question. to the question what goal incremental confirmation is supposed to further: Science aims at informative true theories, and one should stick to incrementally well The preceding suggests the following answer to the question what goal incremental confirmation is supposed to further: Science aims at informative truth, and one f reveals the confirmational structure of almost every world when presented separating data iff for any probability Pr on a Gaifman and Snir language L and any Theorem 3 A possibly partial function f : L × L × L → < reveals the confirmational structure of almost every world when presented separating data iff f is informative (among all) true theories. However, although all measures of incremental confirmation separate contingently true from contingently false theories, not all of them distinguish between informative and uninformative true and false theories. ./cache/work_2eiffvet7bcell3umgnqrztzba.pdf ./txt/work_2eiffvet7bcell3umgnqrztzba.txt