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Quote:In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.[GK Chesterton]



Definitions of: confirm

Definition: To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

Definition: To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

Definition: To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.

Definition: To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.

Definition: To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.

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