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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-84572-6e than probable/likely. Intuitively, even obviously, some claims are more probable/likely than others. Everyone agrees that scientific claims in particular are probable/likely to the extent that they are confirmed by experimental evidence. But there is very little agreement about what “confirmation

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96877-8ians and Glymour, but unlike us, his own account of evidence incorporates what we have called the “true-model” assumption, that there is a conceptual connection between the existence of evidence for a hypothesis and having a good reason to believe that the hypothesis is true. In this connection, and

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