disprove a fact

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• evidence — Any species of proof, or probative matter, legally presented at the trial of an issue, by the act of the parties and through the medium of witnesses, records, documents, exhibits, concrete objects, etc., for the purpose of inducing belief in the… …   Black's law dictionary

• evidence — Any species of proof, or probative matter, legally presented at the trial of an issue, by the act of the parties and through the medium of witnesses, records, documents, exhibits, concrete objects, etc., for the purpose of inducing belief in the… …   Black's law dictionary

• Relevance (law) — Relevance, in the common law of evidence, is the tendency of a given item of evidence to prove or disprove one of the legal elements of the case, or to have probative value to make one of the elements of the case likelier or not. Evidence that is …   Wikipedia

• Laffer curve — In economics, the Laffer curve is used to illustrate the idea that increases in the rate of taxation may sometimes decrease tax revenue. Since a 100 percent income tax will generate no revenue (as citizens will have no incentive to work), the… …   Wikipedia

• relevant — rel·e·vant / re lə vənt/ adj 1: tending logically to prove or disprove a fact of consequence or to make the fact more or less probable and thereby aiding the trier of fact in making a decision determined that the evidence was relevant; also:… …   Law dictionary

• burden shifting — v. The shifting of the burden of proof from one party to another at trial, after each party presents sufficient evidence to initially persuade the fact finder of the truth or falsehood of a disputed fact or assertion, the burden shifts to the… …   Law dictionary

• Admissible evidence — Admissible evidence, in a court of law, is any testimonial, documentary, or tangible evidence that may be introduced to a factfinder usually a judge or jury in order to establish or to bolster a point put forth by a party to the proceeding. In… …   Wikipedia

• immaterial evidence — Evidence which is offered to prove or disprove a fact or proposition which is not at issue. 29 Am J2d Ev § 252. See material evidence …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Creation Science — Creationism can also refer to creation myths, or to a concept about the origin of the soul. For the movement in Spanish literature, see Creacionismo. Part of a series on Creationism …   Wikipedia

• Creation science — or scientific creationism is a movement within creationism which attempts to use scientific means to disprove the accepted scientific theories on the history of the Earth, cosmology and biological evolution and prove the Genesis account of… …   Wikipedia

• Eastern epistemology — Jain EpistemologyAccording to Jain epistemology, reality is multifaceted ( anekanta , or non one sided ), such that no finite set of statements can capture the entire truth about the objects they describe. The Jain list of pramanas (valid sources …   Wikipedia