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the receipt reality keeps even when everyone agrees to forget the transaction
means the facts, objects, or testimony that show whether something is true — the basis on which a claim can be believed or doubted
from From Latin 'evidentia,' meaning clearness or obviousness, built from 'ex-' (out) plus 'videre' (to see) — literally what is seen plainly, what stands out in plain sight. It reached English through Old French 'evidence' in the medieval period, carrying that same sense of the visibly undeniable; 'videre' is the same root that gives us 'vision,' 'video,' and 'evident.'
- latin root
- means to see out, to make plain
- eyewitness flaw
- misidentification fuels most wrongful convictions
- absence
- absence of it isn't evidence of absence
- fingerprints
- no two people share the same patterns, ever
- locard's principle
- every contact leaves a trace behind
for instance
lucy skeleton fossil — 3.2 million-year-old australopithecus afarensis remains found in ethiopia in 1974, key evidence for human evolution