I was pointed to a post by J. Warner Wallace where he seeks to give a distinction between evidence and proof. This is in itself something good to do because who has not heard people scream “SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE!” as though if they are shown enough evidence that it is proof [of something].
The following statement seems to provide the basis of Wallace’s apparent confusion between proof and persuasion. Wallace writes the following:
While evidence is a matter of objective truth, proof is in the mind of the evaluator, and many of us resist the truth in spite
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