… All theories of confirmation rely on measures of how well … Most contemporary confirmation
theories employ probability … of confirmation functions—views about what the confirmation …

… talk about confirmation. For example, we often take evidence as confirming a scientific theory
but it does not seem that there is a physical probability of a particular scientific theory being …

… elementary Expectation–Confirmation theory (ECT), then quests the rationale to develop a
new but related theory in IS context and then presents the Expectation–Confirmation model (…

… point of view of Carnap's confirmation theory. It is argued that … structure and development of
theories, and has interpreted … aid the imagination in construction of theories, it may not raise …

… CONFIRMIATION-THEORY 151 ing each occurrence of a pattern as a confirming instance;
… by a definition of degree of confirmation for which the number of confirming cases is always …

In both science and everyday life, we use the notion of evidence (e) confirming a hypothesis
(h) or a prediction (d). Confirmation theory is an attempt to analyse this crucial notion of …

… in the field of expert systems, but is devoted to modeling confirmation of scientific theories. …
of confirmation of scientific theories, but also to the treatment of uncertainty by Bayes-theory in …

… of the logic of confirmation. And so, traditionally, confirmation theory has come to be a central
… No more than this will be needed to begin our exploration of Bayesian confirmation theories…

We first discuss several qualitative properties of confirmation as analyzed in a probabilistic
framework. Some of these properties are classical, while others are relatively novel; some are …

… expectation–confirmation theory and self-determination theory to explore loyalty. Besides,
this study transplants the traditional application of self-determination theory from educational …