Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS IV DIVISION I SECTION III. MATERIALS FOR REASONING


467. Evidence [On one side.] -- N. evidence; facts, premises, data, praecognita [Lat.] , grounds.

468. [Evidence on the other side, on the other hand.] Counter Evidence -- N. counter evidence; evidence on the other side, evidence on the other hand; conflicting evidence, contradictory evidence, opposing evidence; disproof, refutation &c 479; negation &c 536.

469. Qualification -- N. qualification, limitation, modification, coloring.

470. Possibility -- N. possibility, potentiality; what may be, what is possible &c adj.; compatibility &c (agreement) 23.

471. Impossibility -- N. impossibility &c adj.; what cannot, what can never be; sour grapes; hopelessness &c 859.

472. Probability -- N. probability, likelihood; credibleness † ; likeliness &c adj.; vraisemblance [Fr.] , verisimilitude, plausibility; color, semblance, show of; presumption; presumptive evidence, circumstantial evidence; credibility.

473. Improbability -- N. improbability, unlikelihood; unfavorable chance, bad chance, ghost of a chance, little chance, small chance, poor chance, scarcely any chance, no chance; bare possibility; long odds; incredibility &c 485.

474. Certainty -- N. certainty; necessity &c 601; certitude, surety, assurance; dead certainty, moral certainty; infallibleness &c adj.; infallibility, reliability; indubitableness, inevitableness, unquestionableness † .

475. Uncertainty -- N. uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness &c adj.; dubiety, dubitation † , dubitancy † , dubitousness † .