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work_g4zz4bdk5fh4rdvajwart7ghga	David Christensen	Glymour on Evidential Relevance	1983	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5025	334	65	Glymour's "bootstrap" account of confirmation is designed to provide an analysis of evidential relevance, which has been a serious problem for hypotheticodeductivism. As set out in Theory and Evidence, however, the "bootstrap" condition allows confirmation in clear cases of evidential irrelevance. bootstrap condition is designed to allow a sentence including only "observational" vocabulary to confirm hypotheses framed in a richer "theoretical" vocabulary. The most significant merit of the bootstrap condition, according to Glymour, is that it provides an account of how a bit of evidence can confirm account most naturally gives a simple two-place confirmation relation between an evidence statement E and an hypothesis or theory H: E confirms difficulties, is that each account attempts to define the confirmation relations within a theory by looking only at the set of sentences entailed But the example suggests the possibility that no confirmation theory can satisfactorily account for our intuitions by looking only at the sets of sentences 	./cache/work_g4zz4bdk5fh4rdvajwart7ghga.pdf	./txt/work_g4zz4bdk5fh4rdvajwart7ghga.txt