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Example sentences for "direct evidence"

  • It is certain there is no direct evidence in support of it, neither is it shown that his work is founded on that of Amati.

  • The idea that such a maker as Guarneri groped in the dark savours of the ridiculous; moreover, there is direct evidence, on the contrary, of his marvellous fertility of design.

  • There is no direct evidence as to the name of the master from whom he learnt the art of making stringed instruments.

  • In all cases where there is an absence of direct evidence, opinions can only be formed from particular analogies bearing on the case under consideration.

  • But, in default of direct evidence, the point may without much danger of error be settled by circumstantial evidence.

  • The prevailing hypothesis of a luminiferous ether, in other respects not without analogy to that of Descartes, is not in its own nature entirely cut off from the possibility of direct evidence in its favour.

  • Direct evidence of its truth there could not be.

  • The first line of direct evidence in favour of organic evolution which I shall open is that which may be termed the argument from Classification.

  • Therefore, the only possible way in which all this uniform body of direct evidence can be met by a supporter of the latter theory, is by falling back upon the argument from ignorance.

  • Now there is no direct evidence in Homer connecting Deucalion with Thessaly.

  • With regard to Euphetes and Agamemnon, we have no direct evidence.

  • It is sometimes said that we have no direct evidence of the action of this selecting power in nature.

  • It is evidently only by direct evidence of the two forms breeding separately that this can be distinguished from dimorphism.

  • In consequence of the certainty of the conclusions of Agama, the success to which the latter leads may be said to be almost realisable by direct evidence.

  • The scriptures are capable of being contradicted by direct evidence.

  • Direct evidence is the root of both inference and the scriptures.

  • The prevailing hypothesis of a luminiferous ether, in other respects not without analogy to that of Descartes, is not in its own nature entirely cut off from the possibility of direct evidence in its favor.

  • This is the major premise divested of the petitio principii, and cut down to as much as is really known by direct evidence.

  • Direct evidence, as a rule, is considered more valuable than indirect, but each kind is frequently sufficient to induce belief.

  • Since the Interior Miwok word for chief is haiapo, there is a bare possibility that the hoi of today may have been rendered hai in 1579, though there is no direct evidence to support this suggestion.

  • The Coast Miwok ceremonial number was probably four, though there is no direct evidence to support this supposition.

  • The latter part of this statement cannot be maintained seriously in the face of Kroeber's presentation of direct evidence to the contrary.

  • I may conclude this discussion by saying that no direct evidence of Drake's visit in 1579 is to be found in recorded local Indian traditions.

  • In Mrs. Piper's case, as we shall see, the subliminal self is very little in direct evidence; its manifestations form a fleeting interlude between her waking state and her possession by a discarnate spirit.

  • During this time there is no direct evidence of haunting, but when inquiry was made later on much hearsay evidence was brought forward.

  • Nor, again, is the mere increment of direct evidence, important though that is, the sole factor in the changed situation.

  • Direct evidence of subsidence difficult to be detected.

  • In the chapter on Keeling atoll, I attempted to show by direct evidence, that the island underwent a movement of subsidence, during the earthquakes lately felt there.

  • This is the major premiss, divested of the petitio principii, and cut down to as much as is really known by direct evidence.

  • In the arterial blood the iron is in the form of peroxide: in the venous blood we have no direct evidence which of the oxides is present, but the considerations to be presently stated lead to the conclusion that it is the protoxide.

  • In this chapter, therefore, I shall speak first of direct evidence, then of indirect, and then pass on to consider a few of the simpler principles which govern reasoning.

  • We have no direct evidence as to the mode in which the baggage of an army, which must have been very considerable, was conveyed, either along the general line of route, or when it was necessary to cross a river.

  • Upon this point there is no direct evidence; but the probability is that they were drawn up inclined ways, sloping gently from the natural ground to the top of the platforms.

  • There is no direct evidence by which these questions can be determinately answered.

  • The sculptures, however, furnish no direct evidence on this point, for there is nothing to mark the scene of the great processional pieces.

  • The last line of direct evidence, or that derived from the alleged non-variability of parthenogenetic organisms, is, as Professor Vines has shown, opposed to fact.

  • The third and only other line of direct evidence is, that organisms which have been produced parthenogenetically, or without admixture of germ-plasms in any previous act of sexual fertilization, do not exhibit congenital variations.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cylindrical form; direct contradiction; direct course; direct current; direct examination; direct government; direct interest; direct legislation; direct line; direct object; direct question; direct taxation; direct taxes; direct their; direct violation; direct vote; directed above; directing them; directly contrary; general store; individual variation; little grim; pursued them; shall tell; turned round; you feel