Meaning of counterevidence | Babel Free

Definitions

Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Having been strongly pressed to do so, I gave counter-evidence, and I believe, in the opinion of the Commission, demolished the Doctor a second time.”

“As the alternative norms and counterevidences are uncovered, it is the evaluator's task to determine inconsistency, contradiction, and subterfuge, and then to render his own verdict.”

“People persevere in asserting all sorts of things in the face of apparent counterevidence.”

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