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Claim vs Counterevidence - What's the difference?

claim | counterevidence |

As nouns the difference between claim and counterevidence

is that claim is a demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory) while counterevidence is evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.

As a verb claim

is to demand ownership of.

claim

English

Alternative forms

* claym (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
  • A new statement of truth made about something, usually when the statement has yet to be verified.
  • A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush)
  • (legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.

    • Usage notes

    * Demand ownership of land not previously owned. One usually stakes a claim. * The legal sense. One usually makes a claim. See

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To demand ownership of.
  • To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
  • To demand ownership or right to use for land.
  • (legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
  • To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
  • * John Locke
    • We must know how the first ruler, from whom anyone claims , came by his authority.
  • To proclaim.
    • (Spenser)
  • To call or name.
    • (Spenser)

    Related terms

    * claimable * claimant * claimer * disclaim * disclaimer

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    counterevidence

    English

    Alternative forms

    * counter-evidence

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy, legal, science) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.
  • *1838 , David King, “Two lectures, in reply to the speeches of Dr. Chalmers on church extension,” Hume Tracts , David Robertson (Glasgow), p. 21:
  • *: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 .
  • *1975 , Edward Kelly, “Curriculum Evaluation and Literary Criticism: Comments on the Analogy,” Curriculum Theory Network , vol. 5, no. 2, p. 102:
  • *: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.
  • *2007 , Daniel A. Weiskopf, “Patrolling the Mind’s Boundaries,” Erkenntnis , vol. 68, no. 2, p. 273:?
  • *:People persevere in asserting all sorts of things in the face of apparent counterevidence .

    • References

    *" counterevidence" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .