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Misty » 27 Mar 2017 8:24 pm » wrote: So words that are synonymous don't mean the same thing?

What I said was that the word proof was a synonym for the word evidence.
Clem said that wasn't true.

http://liberalforum.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 60#p894361

I provided several sources that say that the word proof is a synonym for the word evidence.

http://liberalforum.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 60#p894390

http://liberalforum.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 60#p894423

http://liberalforum.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 80#p894434

You and Clem can argue with the various Thesauri that say the words are synonymous.

Evidence is subject to counter evidence. Evidence can be overcome.

I knew someone whose house was burgled. Another person, for nefarious reasons, manufactured evidence that I was the burglar. When confronted with the evidence against me, I was easily able to prove the evidence false - but I did not.

Instead, I offered an ethical-standing argument: Myself. I looked my friend in the eye, acknowledged that the evidence was damning, and gave him my word I had not done the crime. He immediately apologized for even having confronted me with the evidence - whereupon I provided the fulsome proofs of my innocence, which included an iron-clad alibi.

If you prove I did a thing, my evidence has been overcome.

"I have evidence" and "I have proof" will always be different pronouncements, IMO.