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Terms vs Counterevidence - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and counterevidence

is that terms is while counterevidence is (philosophy|legal|science) evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.

terms

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    counterevidence

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    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 .

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