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Evidence vs Withness - What's the difference?

evidence | withness |

As nouns the difference between evidence and withness

is that evidence is obviousness, clearness while withness is (philosophy) the quality of being or doing with something.

evidence

English

(wikipedia evidence)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(w) , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence , for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • (legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2004, date=April 15, work=The Scotsman
    • , title= Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}
  • One who bears witness.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott)
    • infamous and perjured evidences

    Derived terms

    * anecdotal evidence * circumstantial evidence * evidence-based medicine * hearsay evidence

    Derived terms

    * after-discovered evidence * clear and convincing evidence * demurrer to evidence * preponderance of evidence, preponderance of the evidence * self-evidence

    Related terms

    * evident * evidential

    Verb

    (evidenc)
  • To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
    • She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "evidence")

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    withness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (philosophy) The quality of being or doing with something.
  • * 2000 , Sharon Warner, Experiencing the Knowing of Faith (page 113)
    • Whitehead passionately denies this premise, and asserts repeatedly that the root of all perception is the "withness of the body." We see with our eyes; we taste with our palate.
  • * 2009 , Eric Manning, Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (page 6)
    • Nonetheless, there is an incipient potentiality even here, where the step can move eventfully in a withness of movement moving that exceeds the predomination of the ground: the step can become a spiral.