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    It is not the case that If c(h,e)—the degree of confirmation of hypothesis h given evidence e—is a logical relation, it holds necessarily and is knowable without further empirical input.

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    • 1.Confirmation requires assessing which evidence is *relevant*, but relevance depends on causal structure—an empirical matter.
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    • 2.Prior probabilities are needed to calculate confirmation, yet these encode contingent facts about the world or background knowledge.
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    • 3.Actual scientific confirmation judgments vary across contexts and depend on empirical assumptions we discover through practice.
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    • 1.Logical relations like entailment hold necessarily between propositions independent of physical facts.
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    • 2.If confirmation is logical, it depends only on the syntactic and semantic structure of h and e.
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    • 3.Mathematical truths about probability are knowable a priori; confirmation ratios reduce to such truths.
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