Creators
Ben O'Steen
Contributor
Keith Alexander
This vocabulary defines terms for describing forms of evidence and the hypotheses that may be formed from it. It was created at vocamp oxford 2008[en]

Terms Summary

An alphabetical list of all terms defined in this schema.

TermURIDescription
Conclusionhttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/Conclusiona proposition arrived at after consideration of evidence
Conclusionhttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/conclusiona conclusion derived from a hypothesis
Evidencehttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/Evidencesomething that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of a hypothesis
Hypothesishttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/Hypothesisa reasoned proposal suggesting a possible correlation between multiple phenomena
Refuting evidencehttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/refutingEvidenceevidence that refutes this hypothesis
Supporting evidencehttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/supportingEvidenceevidence that supports this hypothesis

Properties and Classes

Conclusion

URI: http://vocab.org/evidence/terms/Conclusion

a proposition arrived at after consideration of evidence

Conclusion

URI: http://vocab.org/evidence/terms/conclusion

a conclusion derived from a hypothesis

Semantics

Having this property implies being a Hypothesis. Every value of this property is a Conclusion.

Evidence

URI: http://vocab.org/evidence/terms/Evidence

something that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of a hypothesis

Hypothesis

URI: http://vocab.org/evidence/terms/Hypothesis

a reasoned proposal suggesting a possible correlation between multiple phenomena

Refuting evidence

URI: http://vocab.org/evidence/terms/refutingEvidence

evidence that refutes this hypothesis

Semantics

Having this property implies being a Hypothesis. Every value of this property is an Evidence.

Supporting evidence

URI: http://vocab.org/evidence/terms/supportingEvidence

evidence that supports this hypothesis

Semantics

Having this property implies being a Hypothesis. Every value of this property is an Evidence.

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