Full Idea
Does the sudden realization of a heretofore unrecognized possibility count as evidence?
Gist of Idea
Does spotting a new possibility count as evidence?
Source
Timothy McGrew (Evidence [2011], 'Evid..')
Book Reference
'Routledge Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Bernecker,S/Pritchard,D [Routledge 2014], p.62
A Reaction
[Nice use of 'heretofore'! Why say 'previously' when you can keep these wonderful old English words alive?] This means that we can imagine new evidence ('maybe the murderer was a snake'!). Wrong. The evidence is what suggests the possibility.