CONFIRMATION

Charles François (2004). CONFIRMATION, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 602.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(1)
ID	◀ 602 ▶
Object type	Epistemology, ontology or semantics

1. A result of perception of redundancy in a message registered by a receiver.

Confirmation may act as an operator and lead to reinforcement.

2. “The support given to a hypothesis or model (a) by evidence available in the form of data or observations or (b) by logical deduction from premises, ultimately from the axioms of a formal system” (K. KRIPPENDORFF, 1986, p.15).

This could be considered a near synonym of “validation”