MIXORA CONCEPT
Burden of proof
The responsibility to provide adequate support for a claim within a discussion or decision context.
A burden depends on what is asserted, the consequences of error and the agreed standard. Rejecting an unsupported claim does not require proving its opposite, although anyone making a counterclaim acquires a burden of their own.
What “Strong evidence” means
The core definition or effect is well established across authoritative standards, foundational research or a broad research literature. The label does not make every practical prediction certain.
VISUAL EXPLANATION · MARKER BOARDSomeone claiming that one pigment is toxic must provide evidence; asking for that evidence does not assert that the pigment is safe.
Burden of proof is not automatically assigned to whichever side is less popular or speaks second.
Who asserted what, and what level of evidence is appropriate to the stakes?
A set of claims in which one or more premises are offered in support of a conclusion.
→thought × bridgeEvidenceInformation that raises, lowers or otherwise constrains rational confidence in a claim.
→thoughtPremiseA statement offered as a reason for accepting a conclusion.
→thoughtPhilosophical skepticismA family of positions or arguments that question whether knowledge or justification is possible in some domain.
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References
Last reviewed
- 01Informal LogicReference source
Leo Groarke · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Evaluation of real-world arguments, premise acceptability and inference quality.
What the source labels mean
- Primary source
- Original work, experiment, standard or historical text.
- Academic source
- Scholarly research or review published for an academic audience.
- Reference source
- An expert standard, encyclopedia or institutional explanation that summarizes a field.
- General reference
- A practical specialist resource useful for application, but not treated as decisive research by itself.