Evidence is not usually used in the plural form, except in apologetics. I think, however, if you give us the surrounding paragraph, we can do even better in revising it. Evidence always supports something; your sentence would be stronger if it were more immediate to see just what the evidence comprises.
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11 1 6. 1. There is evidence that it is in use as a verb, but I don't encounter it very often. In your example sentence I think"the study showed that..." or"the study found evidence that..." would be better. – nnnnnn. Apr 22, 2020 at 4:31. Dictionaries study common usage, and base their entries upon it.
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Evidence can be used as a verb according to Merriam Webster. Its usage as a verb is not common on either side of the Atlantic."We need to formally document the agreement with these forms". But when evidence is"correctly" used as a verb, it has the sense of establish by evidence, to make evident, demonstrate, prove.
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Evidence or Evidences of Christianity , Evidences of the Christian Religion, or simply The Evidences. 6. a. Information, whether in the form of personal testimony, the language of documents, or the production of material objects, that is given in a legal investigation, to establish the fact or point in question. Also, an evidence = a piece of ...
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My impression of conjecture is that it involves forming an unconfirmed hypothesis or jumping to a conclusion—but that it doesn't necessarily involve presenting evidence selectively in order to support that conclusion (as in the posted question). A person might honestly and objectively present all of the known facts about a case and then make a conjecture as to what conclusion these facts ...
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Empirical evidence is the evidence of the senses, of direct observation or measurement. Compare that to rational evidence, which is evidence that is the result of deduction or other reasoning, or anecdotal evidence which comes from personal testimony (which may be reliable or not). For example, here we have Bob, and a dead man with a knife in ...
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205 1 6. 1. In that context it's idiomatic, if perhaps a hair informal. But in general use"evidence" is uncountable and would not accept"another". – Hot Licks. Mar 25, 2020 at 22:18. Add a comment. Another idiomatic replacement in this context would be 'another sign of spring'. dbmag9.
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So you could say that anecdote, testimony, and analogy are forms of evidence that do not inherently connote empiricism. Given these alternatives to empirical evidence that nonetheless fall under the umbrella term evidence, I think evidence doesn't inherently connote empiricism and may be the best term to use.
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Evidence is usually a collective noncountable, and if the Ngram viewer is to be believed, usage with a plural verb is vanishingly rare. A reasonable time spent in the Ngram viewer sifted one only example from the false drops. From
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The evidence or argument that compels the mind to accept an assertion as true. [American Heritage Dictionary via the Free Dictionary] In some fields of enquiry (Law, or the Sciences) a preponderance of evidence, and a lack of evidence to the contrary, would be regarded as a proof of some statement or assertion. In others (Mathematics or Logic ...
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