# Praying for Confirmation Is Not Checking a Factual Claim ## Claim A procedure that can only return assent is not a test. Substituting resonance for verification is the general shape of accepting a claim because it fits, and it is available to anyone regardless of what the confirming step is called. <!-- atomicity: 1 idea ✓ --> ## Scope & conditions - Stated by someone describing her own entry into an eighteen-year commitment. Applies well beyond religion to any confirmation ritual that cannot return a negative. ## Links - [[A Claim That Proof-Texts Is Refuted By Reading The Rest Of The Source]] — extends; both concern the difference between a check and the appearance of one - [[An Interpretive Method With No Shared Verification Procedure Fragments by Construction]] — evidence-for - [[Vagueness Manufactures Retroactive Confirmation]] — extends; both describe procedures that can only return assent - [[3. Resources/MOCs/NAR and Charismatic Authority Critique MOC]] — the entry mechanism, upstream of everything else the MOC documents