Definition of Counterevidence

1. Noun. (philosophy legal science) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. ¹

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Definition of Counterevidence

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterevidence

counterdie
counterdraw
counterdrawing
counterdrawn
counterdraws
counterdrew
counterdrug
countered
countereffect
countereffort
counterefforts
counterelectromotive
counterespionage
counterestablishment
counterestablishments
counterevidence (current term)
counterevidences
counterexample
counterexamples
counterexploitation
counterextension
counterface
counterfaces
counterfactors
counterfactual
counterfactuality
counterfactually
counterfactuals
counterfaisance
counterfeisance

Literary usage of Counterevidence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Concept of Knowledge by Panayot Butchvarov (1970)
"To say that its self-evidence consists in the absolute impossibility that anything would be counterevidence with regard to it is at best to obscure the ..."

2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"counterevidence, (koun-ter-ev'-e- dense) ns Testimony by which the deposition of some former witness is opposed. ..."

3. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"... we ask you to be willing to aid us to institute a tribunal for searching inquiry of evidence and counterevidence. In the name of your official tribunal, ..."

4. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"In the trial, which followed in January, 1911, the circumstantial evidence against VP was successfully met by counterevidence, so f that the chief reliance ..."

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