different between evidence vs undocumentable

English

Etymology

From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?d?ns/, /??v?d?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): [??v???ns]
• Hyphenation: ev?i?dence

Noun

evidence (usually uncountable, plural evidences)

1. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
   • 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

     In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

2. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
3. One who bears witness.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 53:

     He recapitulated the Sybil’s story word by word, with the air of a man who is cross-examining an evidence, and trying to make him contradict himself.

4. A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with the term "evidence": documentary, physical, empirical, scientific, material, circumstantial, anectodal, objective, strong, weak, conclusive, hard

Derived terms

Related terms

• evident
• evidential

Translations

Verb

evidence (third-person singular simple present evidences, present participle evidencing, simple past and past participle evidenced)

1. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

Usage notes

• To be distinguished from evince.

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:evidence.

Further reading

• evidence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• evidence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??v?d?nt?s?]
• Rhymes: -?nts?

Noun

evidence f

1. records
2. registry, repository

Related terms

• See vize
• eviden?ní
• evidovat
• evidentní

See also

• záznamy
• databáze
• registr

Further reading

• evidence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• evidence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Friulian

Noun

evidence f (plural evidencis)

1. evidence

Middle French

Noun

evidence f (plural evidences)

1. evidence

Descendants

• French: évidence

English

Etymology

un- +? documentable

Adjective

undocumentable (not comparable)

1. Not supportable with documentary evidence.

   These hearsay claims are intrinsically undocumentable.

   • 1953, W. Cochran, F. Mosteller, and J. Tukey, "Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol 48 no 264 (Dec), p. 674.

     KPM should have indicated which of their statements where undocumented or undocumentable and should have been more cautious.

   • 1972, W. E. Fredeman, "Impediments and Motives: Biography as an Unfair Sport," Modern Philology, vol 70 no 2 (Nov), p. 151.

     . . . that undocumentable life of which, Sonstroem repeatedly acknowledges, he may not himself even have been aware.

   • 1997, Stephen Jay Gould, "Editorial: Bright Star Among Billions," Science, vol 275 no 5300 (31 Jan), p. 599.

     Real science is so damned exciting, transforming, and provable, why would anyone prefer the undocumentable nonsense of astrology, alien abductions, and so forth?

   • 2002, Scott Moss, "Policy analysis from first principles." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 99, no 10, sup 3 (May), p. 7265.

     Apart from one undocumentable claim, the strongest responses were that, when applied to past data, some new modeling techniques look better than most previous modeling techniques.

Antonyms

• documentable

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