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Today it still bears a close confirmational resemblance to the Chianina, though it is not as tall.

While some may receive encouragement from the content, many a learned listener will hear a typical confirmational drivel that soaks most of Christian radio."

For all its pretensions to objectivity, "Off Center" deteriorates into just the latest example in our political discourse of what might be called confirmational analysis - that is, a work whose primary purpose is to confirm what its audience already believes.

There is a distinct difference between those who theorize about defeasible reasoning as if it were a system of confirmational revision (with affinities to belief revision), and those who theorize about defeasibility as if it were the result of further (non-empirical) investigation.

One upshot of confirmational holism is the underdetermination of theories: if all theories (and the propositions derived from them) of what exists are not sufficiently determined by empirical data (data, sensory-data, evidence); each theory with its interpretation of the evidence is equally justifiable.