counterevidence

See also: counter-evidence

English

Alternative forms

• counter-evidence

Etymology

counter- +‎ evidence

Noun

counterevidence (countable and uncountable, plural counterevidences)

1. (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.