Credence and confidence: what the scores mean

Two words that get used interchangeably, and why Merlise keeps them apart.

This page introduces the idea and shows where it appears in a verification. The full reference lives in your workspace documentation; this is the canonical overview.

How it works in Merlise

Inside Merlise this runs as part of the pipeline that turns a document into a ledger. Each claim carries its own state, and the result is always traceable to the records that produced it rather than to a summary you cannot open.

The reasoning step is kept separate from the probability the system reports, so a persuasive explanation never moves a number on its own. Every adjustment is written to the update log in order.

Worked example

Key points

• The reading traces to a primary record, not a summary.
• Evidence is weighted by provenance before it counts.
• Every step is written to an audit trail you can reopen.