23641 | People dislike believing without evidence, and try to avoid it [Reid] |
19224 | Scientists will give up any conclusion, if experience opposes it [Peirce] |
17073 | I simply reject evidence, if it is totally contrary to my web of belief [Smart] |
3097 | We don't distinguish between accepting, and accepting as evidence [Harman] |
7450 | In the medieval view, only deduction counted as true evidence [Hacking] |
7451 | Formerly evidence came from people; the new idea was that things provided evidence [Hacking] |
16825 | How do we distinguish negative from irrelevant evidence, if both match the hypothesis? [Lipton] |
19687 | Absence of evidence proves nothing, and weird claims need special evidence [McGrew] |
19684 | Does spotting a new possibility count as evidence? [McGrew] |
19688 | Every event is highly unlikely (in detail), but may be perfectly plausible [McGrew] |
19686 | Criminal law needs two separate witnesses, but historians will accept one witness [McGrew] |
19680 | Maybe all evidence consists of beliefs, rather than of facts [McGrew] |
19681 | If all evidence is propositional, what is the evidence for the proposition? Do we face a regress? [McGrew] |
19689 | Several unreliable witnesses can give good support, if they all say the same thing [McGrew] |
17770 | Clifford's dictum seems to block our beliefs in morality, politics and philosophy [Bayne] |
17771 | How we evaluate evidence depends on our background beliefs [Bayne] |
18820 | In English 'evidence' is a mass term, qualified by 'little' and 'more' [Rumfitt] |