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evidence
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thumb|These contrails at an [[airshow provide evidence regarding the aircraft's flight path.]]
Evidence is information or physical signs that help us understand what happened or is true about something—like how contrails (the white trails behind aircraft) show us where a plane has flown. It matters because evidence allows us to figure out facts about the world around us instead of just guessing.
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Philosophy of evidence
- Characteristics
- Evidential relation
- In specific fields
- In epistemology
- In phenomenology
- In philosophy of science
- Different types of evidence
- In science (empirical evidence)
- In law
- Collection
- Presentation
- Burden of proof
- Specific types
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|These contrails at an [[airshow provide evidence regarding the aircraft's flight path.]]
Evidence for a proposition is what supports the proposition. It is usually understood as an indication that the proposition is true. The exact definition and role of evidence vary across different fields.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “evidence” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.