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  2. Credulity - Wikipedia

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    Credulity is a person's willingness or ability to believe that a statement is true, especially on minimal or uncertain evidence. [1] [2] Credulity is not necessarily a belief in something that may be false: the subject of the belief may even be correct, but a credulous person will believe it without good evidence.

  3. Evidentiality - Wikipedia

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    The speaker reports an event on the basis of someone else's report (quotative, i.e. hearsay evidence), of a dream (revelative evidence), of a guess (presumptive evidence) or of his own previous experience (memory evidence)." Jakobson also was the first to clearly separate evidentiality from grammatical mood.

  4. Concise Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    ?th [clarification needed] edition: Dictionary includes over 240,000 entries and definitions; Thesaurus includes over 300,000 synonyms and antonyms. Android version. Published by MobiSystems. 5.1.030; 6.0.009 (2016-09-29) (Android 4.1 version, 30-day trial)

  5. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Some English examples result from nouns being verbed in the patterns of "add <noun> to" and "remove <noun> from"; e.g. dust, seed, stone. Denotations and connotations can drift or branch over centuries.

  6. Antilegomena - Wikipedia

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    Carlstadt and the New Prophets", History of the Christian Church, The Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Andreas Carlstadt weighed the historic evidence, discriminated between three orders of books as of first, second, and third dignity, putting the Hagiographa of the Old Testament and the seven Antilegomena of the New in the third order, and ...

  7. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Wikipedia

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    The aphorism "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", according to psychologist Patrizio Tressoldi, "is at the heart of the scientific method, and a model for critical thinking, rational thought and skepticism everywhere". [5] [6] [7] It has also been described as a "fundamental principle of scientific skepticism". [8]

  8. Empirical evidence - Wikipedia

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    A thing is evidence for a proposition if it epistemically supports this proposition or indicates that the supported proposition is true. Evidence is empirical if it is constituted by or accessible to sensory experience. There are various competing theories about the exact definition of the terms evidence and empirical. Different fields, like ...

  9. Argument from authority - Wikipedia

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    An argument from authority [a] is a form of argument in which the opinion of an authority figure (or figures) is used as evidence to support an argument. [1]The argument from authority is a logical fallacy, [2] and obtaining knowledge in this way is fallible.