counterevidence

See also: counter-evidence

English

Alternative forms

counter-evidence

Etymology

counter- +‎ evidence

Noun

counterevidence (countable and uncountable, plural counterevidences)

(philosophy, law, sciences) 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”, in Hume Tracts, Glasgow: David Robertson, page 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”, in Curriculum Theory Network, volume 5, number 2, page 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”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, page 273:
  People persevere in asserting all sorts of things in the face of apparent counterevidence.

References

“counterevidence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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