Confirmation (disambiguation)
Confirmation predominantly refers to a rite of passage, mostly (but not exclusively) Christian:
- Confirmation
- Confirmation (Latter Day Saints)
- Confirmation (Lutheran Church)
- Confirmation (Roman Catholic Church)
- Chrismation, or confirmation (Eastern Christianity)
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Confirmation or confirm may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
- Confirmation (film), a 2016 television film about Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas
Music
- "Confirmation" (composition), a bebop jazz music standard by Charlie Parker
- Confirmation (Tommy Flanagan album), a 1982 album by pianist Tommy Flanagan
- Confirmation (Barry Harris and Kenny Barron album), a 1992 album by pianists Barry Harris and Kenny Barron
Science and philosophy
- Confirmation, a part of the scientific method
- Confirmation holism, the claim that a single scientific theory cannot be tested in isolation
- Bayesian confirmation theory, a quantitative, as opposed to a qualitative, theory of confirmation
- Non-Bayesian confirmation theory, in the philosophy of science, an extension by Donald A. Gillies of Karl Popper's theory of corroboration
- Verificationism, adherence to the verification principle proposed by A. J. Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic
Other uses
- Confirm Project, an intended computer reservation and distribution system
- Probate, known in Scotland as confirmation
- Senate confirmation, a process of confirming a presidential nominee by the United States Senate
- Tenure, at universities in Australia and New Zealand, referred to as confirmation
See also
- Conformation (disambiguation)
- Conformity (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with confirm
- All pages with titles containing confirm*
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