>>13275719>How many dictionaries did you go through to cherrypick that one?only one, the one I have, "Longman English Dictionary"
>in a court of lawso we are now mixing definitions. is this /sci/ or /law/ ? you can't really PROVE anything ever (see: epistemology) except in math (which does not deal with reality, at least not directly). but what the OP says is a basic logical statement: the fact that we have no knowledge about something does not mean that that thing does NOT exist. how do you go from that to probabilities, I still don't know, and you did not respond to that.
also, afaiu, "truth" and "proof" in legal terms is what a court decides in a final statement. the events could be completely different from what the court decided they were, but it doesn't matter what the event itself was until someone challenges that.
