Assertion: evidence | /r/HasProperty | the sort of thing
Facets:
value: explanatorily
type: MANNER
value: paradigmatically
type: MANNER
value: either probabilistically, deductively,
type: MANNER
value: for an archaeologist
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: For an archaeologist, evidence is the sort of thing which one might dig up from the ground and carefully send back to one's laboratory for further analysis.
text: For the forensics expert, evidence might consist of fingerprints on a gun, a bloodied knife, or a semen-stained dress: evidence is, paradigmatically, the kind of thing which one might place in a plastic bag and label ‘Exhibit A’.
text: It follows that evidence must be the sort of thing that can have a probability.
text: And as he frequently points out, if one is to reason with one’s evidence, either probabilistically, deductively, or explanatorily, the evidence must be the sort of thing that one can grasp or understand, namely, a proposition.
text: Evidence, whatever else it is, is the kind of thing which can make a difference to what one is justified in believing or (what is often, but not always, taken to be the same thing) what it is reasonable for one to believe.