Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Thoughts About A Science Of Evidence

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• THOUGHTS ABOUT A SCIENCE OF EVIDENCE
• 1.0 A STANDPOINT IN THIS ACCOUNT OF A SCIENCE OF EVIDENCE 
• 2.0 SOME BEGINNINGS
• 3.0 CONCEPTS OF EVIDENCE AND SCIENCE: THEIR EMERGENCE AND MUTATION 
• 3.1 On the Concept of Evidence.
• 3.2 On the Concept of Science and Its Methods
• 4.0 ELEMENTS OF A SCIENCE OF EVIDENCE
• 4.1 Classification of Evidence
• 4.2 Studies of the Properties of Evidence.
• 4.2.1 On the Relevance of Evidence
• 4.2.2 On the Credibility of Evidence and Its Sources.
• Credibility Attributes: Tangible Evidence
• Competence and Credibility Attributes: Testimonial Evidence
• Credibility Attributes.
• 4.2.3 The Inferential Force, Weight or Strength of Evidence
• Bayes' Rule and the Force of Evidence
• Evidential Support and Evidential Weight: Nonadditive Beliefs
• Evidential Completeness and the Weight of Evidence in Baconian Probability 
• Verbal Assessments of the Force of Evidence: Fuzzy Probabilities
• 4.3 On the Uses of Evidence
• 4.3.1 On the Inferential Roles of Evidence
• Supporting Hypothesis H.
• Negating Hypothesis H
• 4.3.2 Stories from Evidence and Numbers
• 4.4. Discovery in the Science of Evidence
• 4.4.1 Discoveries about Evidence
• 4.4.2 Evidence Science and the Discovery of New Evidence
• Generating Evidence from Argument Construction
• Evidence Marshaling and Discovery
• Mathematics and the Discovery of Evidence
• 4.5 A Stronger Definition of a Science of Evidence
• 5.0 AN INTEGRATED SCIENCE OF EVIDENCE
• 5.1. The Science of Evidence: A Multidisciplinary Venture
• 5.2 The Science of Complexity: A Model
• 5.3 A Science of Evidence: Who Should Care?
• 6.0 IN CONCLUSION
• NOTES