confirmational
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From confirmation + -al.
Adjective
[edit]confirmational (not comparable)
- (philosophy) Of or pertaining to the confirmation of one theory or observation by others.
- 2007 September 28, David Liggins, “Quine, Putnam, and the ‘Quine–Putnam’ Indispensability Argument”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, :
- Unlike the standard ‘Quine–Putnam’ argument given in Sect. 1, these arguments do not invoke confirmational holism.