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

Term Summary

An alphabetical list of all terms defined in this schema.

TermURIDescription
conclusionhttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/conclusion A property representing a conclusion derived from a hypothesis.
evidencehttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/Evidence A class whose members are something that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of a hypothesis.
hypothesishttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/Hypothesis A class whose members are a reasoned proposal suggesting a possible correlation between multiple phenomena.
refuting evidencehttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/refutingEvidence A property representing evidence that refutes this hypothesis.
supporting evidencehttp://vocab.org/evidence/terms/supportingEvidence A property representing evidence that supports this hypothesis.

Properties and Classes

conclusion

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

A property representing 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

A class whose members are something that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of a hypothesis.

Semantics

Things are a member of this class if they are the value of a supporting evidence or a refuting evidence.

hypothesis

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

A class whose members are a reasoned proposal suggesting a possible correlation between multiple phenomena.

Semantics

Having a conclusion, a supporting evidence or a refuting evidence implies being a member of this class.

refuting evidence

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

A property representing 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

A property representing evidence that supports this hypothesis.

Semantics

Having this property implies being a hypothesis. Every value of this property is an evidence.