Unification through Confirmation

The connection between unification and confirmation has been underappreciated. Although seminal works in the literature allude to this connection, they typically fail to provide critical details. Moreover, in the same works the burden of analysing the concept of unification falls on the concepts of understanding and explanation. I argue that the prospects of this approach appear bleak as the latter concepts, at least as they are traditionally construed, are opaque and not readily amenable to an objective treatment. As an alternative, I shift the entire burden of the analysis to confirmational concepts, offering not just a novel account of unification but, more importantly, something that has been virtually missing from the literature, namely a quantitative measure.