Assertion: prediction | /r/HasProperty | confirmed
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text: while itself a kind of inference, a prediction is an educated guess (often about explicit details) that can be confirmed or denied, an inference is more concerned with the implicit.
text: Of course, there was for Popper an important difference between scientific theories whose predictions were confirmed and those whose prediction were falsified.
text: first 99 predictions are confirmed.
text: Critically, if a prediction is confirmed — if the data agree with the prediction — you can say that the data are consistent with the prediction and, from that point onward you can also say that the data are consistent with the hypothesis that spawned the prediction.