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Definition of Counterevidence
1. Noun. (philosophy legal science) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Counterevidence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterevidence
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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