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confirmationism

confirmationism noun: a weaker form of verificationism, allowing for partial testability to establish degrees of confirmation on a probabilistic basis.

Noun

confirmationism (uncountable)

  1. A weaker form of verificationism, allowing for partial testability to establish degrees of confirmation on a probabilistic basis.

Origin of confirmationism

confirmation + -ism

Questions about confirmationism

What does confirmationism mean?
Confirmationism means a weaker form of verificationism, allowing for partial testability to establish degrees of confirmation on a probabilistic basis.
What part of speech is confirmationism?
Confirmationism is a noun.

Words near confirmationism in the dictionary

  1. confirmation biases
  2. confirmation name
  3. confirmation names
  4. confirmational
  5. confirmationally
  6. confirmationism
  7. confirmationist
  8. confirmationists
  9. confirmations
  10. confirmative
  11. confirmatively

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