Fair enough: as per one of its dictionary definitions “Evidence” is “The means by which an allegation may be proven, such as oral testimony, documents, or physical objects” so that photo can be said to be “evidence”, just like the woman’s words can be said to be “evidence”, just like anything at all no matter how flimsy which any side claims or implies that “may prove the allegation”.
My bad, “evidence” is not “proof” (which was how I read it) and you never claimed it was “proof”, so my mistake.
So strictly speaking your statement was correct, even whilst not actually countering the point of the poster you were responding to: they claimed that there was no “credible evidence” whilst you pointed out (correctly as you just showed me) that there was “evidence”, which is not the same as “credible evidence”.
I’ll try henceforth to keep in mind that saying that “there is evidence” means absolutelly nothing at all about a case beyond somebody having claimed that something they provided may prove an allegation on that case (in other words, claiming something is “evidence” is an allegation about an allegation, so that by itself doesn’t prove or disprove anything further than the initial allegation by itself).
I would say that our discussing here shows that at the original point to which you replied to still stands: the US Administration has shown no credible evidence. They’ve provided what they claim is “evidence”, but then again a Trump recording saying “it’s true” could also be claimed to be “evidence” per the dictionary definition of the word.
Fair enough: as per one of its dictionary definitions “Evidence” is “The means by which an allegation may be proven, such as oral testimony, documents, or physical objects” so that photo can be said to be “evidence”, just like the woman’s words can be said to be “evidence”, just like anything at all no matter how flimsy which any side claims or implies that “may prove the allegation”.
My bad, “evidence” is not “proof” (which was how I read it) and you never claimed it was “proof”, so my mistake.
So strictly speaking your statement was correct, even whilst not actually countering the point of the poster you were responding to: they claimed that there was no “credible evidence” whilst you pointed out (correctly as you just showed me) that there was “evidence”, which is not the same as “credible evidence”.
I’ll try henceforth to keep in mind that saying that “there is evidence” means absolutelly nothing at all about a case beyond somebody having claimed that something they provided may prove an allegation on that case (in other words, claiming something is “evidence” is an allegation about an allegation, so that by itself doesn’t prove or disprove anything further than the initial allegation by itself).
I would say that our discussing here shows that at the original point to which you replied to still stands: the US Administration has shown no credible evidence. They’ve provided what they claim is “evidence”, but then again a Trump recording saying “it’s true” could also be claimed to be “evidence” per the dictionary definition of the word.