Slot: hasEvidence

A piece of information that represents or contributes to an argument for or against the validity of a Statement.

Domain and Range


Comments:		Evidence is any information that is interpreted in assessing the truth of the proposition a Statement puts forth as true. A piece of information only becomes evidence when it is interpreted in this way. Different types and scales of information entity can be used and cited as evidence, including direct observation or measurement data, derived statistical calculations, data tables or figures in a publication, conclusions/findings from a particular study, or prior assertions of knowledge that themselves are based on their own set of evidence. This is a shortcut relation that links a Statement directly to a piece of evidnece supporting it, to be used data creators cannot or do not wich to create an Evidence Line between them.