The connection between a hypothesis and evidence may be loose or imprecise yet still objective enough for evidential evaluation

In probabilistic inductive logic the likelihoods carry the empirical import of hypotheses. A likelihood is a support function probability of form \(P[e \pmid h_i\cdot b\cdot c]\). It expresses how likely it is that outcome \(e\) will occur according to hypothesis \(h_i\) together with the background and auxiliaries \(b\) and the experimental (or observational) conditions \(c\).[5] If a hypothesis together with auxiliaries and experimental/observation conditions deductively entails an evidence c