caa a22 4500 465756379 CHVBK 20180323111848.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00221384 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00221384 Miller Steven School of Education, Loyola University of Chicago, Water Tower Campus, 820 North Michigan Avenue, 60611, Chicago, Illinois, USA aut Confirmation and qualitative evidence-instances: justifying the use of qualitative research methods [Elektronische Daten] [Steven Miller] This article is a preliminary attempt in outlining the directions for a new approach in confirming qualitative research findings. The basic argument is that traditional Confirmation Theory may be applied to establish a firmer epistemological foundation for the acceptance of hypotheses within qualitative-ethnographic research. While all aspects of Confirmation Theory are not applicable to the qualitative case, because the probability calculus is not used in qualitative studies, the basic logical framework of this theory, nevertheless, may be utilized to establish the credibility of qualitative findings. It is argued, therefore, that qualitative research findings, as they bear on the confirmation issue, may be properly considered as a sub-set of traditional Confirmation Theory. To do this, however, requires the development of certain justification rules unique to qualitative research. Some of these rules are developed, and an attempt is made to show how they conform to Hempel's classic development of confirmation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Quality and Quantity Kluwer Academic Publishers 24/1(1990-02-01), 57-63 0033-5177 24:1<57 1990 24 11135 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00221384 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00221384 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Miller Steven School of Education, Loyola University of Chicago, Water Tower Campus, 820 North Michigan Avenue, 60611, Chicago, Illinois, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality and Quantity Kluwer Academic Publishers 24/1(1990-02-01), 57-63 0033-5177 24:1<57 1990 24 11135 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer