Mathematics        
    
    
                        
            
  
      
  
                If I investigate the Goldbach conjecture by testing individual even integers to verify that they accord with it, do I have more reason to believe that the conjecture is true the more integers I verify? Or am I in just the same epistemic position regarding the conjecture whether I've verified one integer or a billion?        
Accepted:October 29, 2017          
                  
    
  
  
  
      Accepted:
October 29, 2017
