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Single Idea 18820
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / a. Evidence
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Full Idea
In English, the word 'evidence' behaves as a mass term: we speak of someone's having little evidence for an assertion, and of one thinker's having more evidence than another for a claim. One the other hand, we also speak of 'pieces' of evidence.
Gist of Idea
In English 'evidence' is a mass term, qualified by 'little' and 'more'
Source
Ian Rumfitt (The Boundary Stones of Thought [2015], 5.2)
Book Ref
Rumfitt,Ian: 'The Boundary Stones of Thought' [OUP 2015], p.133
A Reaction
And having 'more' evidence does not mean having a larger number of pieces of evidence, so it really is like an accumulated mass.
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[experiences and facts pointing towards knowledge]:
23641
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People dislike believing without evidence, and try to avoid it
[Reid]
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19224
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Scientists will give up any conclusion, if experience opposes it
[Peirce]
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17073
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I simply reject evidence, if it is totally contrary to my web of belief
[Smart]
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3097
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We don't distinguish between accepting, and accepting as evidence
[Harman]
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7450
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In the medieval view, only deduction counted as true evidence
[Hacking]
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7451
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Formerly evidence came from people; the new idea was that things provided evidence
[Hacking]
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16825
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How do we distinguish negative from irrelevant evidence, if both match the hypothesis?
[Lipton]
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19687
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Absence of evidence proves nothing, and weird claims need special evidence
[McGrew]
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19684
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Does spotting a new possibility count as evidence?
[McGrew]
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19688
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Every event is highly unlikely (in detail), but may be perfectly plausible
[McGrew]
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19686
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Criminal law needs two separate witnesses, but historians will accept one witness
[McGrew]
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19680
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Maybe all evidence consists of beliefs, rather than of facts
[McGrew]
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19681
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If all evidence is propositional, what is the evidence for the proposition? Do we face a regress?
[McGrew]
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19689
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Several unreliable witnesses can give good support, if they all say the same thing
[McGrew]
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17771
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How we evaluate evidence depends on our background beliefs
[Bayne]
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17770
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Clifford's dictum seems to block our beliefs in morality, politics and philosophy
[Bayne]
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18820
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In English 'evidence' is a mass term, qualified by 'little' and 'more'
[Rumfitt]
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