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(2006) Synthese 149 (1).
Glymour’s theory of bootstrap confirmation is a purely qualitative account of confirmation; it allows us to say that the evidence confirms a given theory, but not that it confirms the theory to a certain degree. The present paper extends Glymour’s theory to a quantitative account and investigates the resulting theory in some detail. It also considers the question how bootstrap confirmation relates to justification.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-004-6250-2
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Douven, I. , Meijs, W. (2006). Bootstrap confirmation made quantitative. Synthese 149 (1), pp. 97-132.