Timeline for What is a word or phrase for "perfect example of" that also communicates "proves the existence of"?
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| Jan 9, 2023 at 16:31 | comment | added | Conrado | Yes, that's true: in science, the burden of proof is not on the skeptic. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 12:15 | comment | added | Greybeard | @Conrado. Nobody "proves a negative". The essence is that if someone makes a claim that extends the known world, then it is for them to prove it, and not for others to disprove it. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 1:08 | comment | added | Conrado | @Greybeard If you're being pedantic, it's pretty difficult to prove the non-existence of dragons. :) | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 21:19 | answer | added | Tinfoil Hat | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 19:14 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | That Gage survived the accident at all is the miracle. The medical treatment might have been noteworthy, but I don't think that was the miracle. I wonder if you can provide a different example sentence — perhaps one with a non-human subject (as you indicated below). | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 16:40 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Jan 7, 2023 at 16:01 | comment | added | Barmar | @Greybeard But it's proof in the fictional context of the book. | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 22:36 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 6, 2023 at 21:02 | answer | added | fertilizerspike | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 20:39 | answer | added | Eliot G York | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 20:09 | answer | added | fev | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 20:04 | answer | added | Eliot G York | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 20:03 | comment | added | John Lawler | In semantics, archetype (for an ancient one) or prototype (at any age) are the usual terms indicating provenance of anything, imaginary or existent. | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 20:02 | answer | added | Brian B | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 19:51 | answer | added | R.S. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 17:29 | comment | added | Greybeard | I understand that these statements are redundant in the sense that saying "A is an example of B" is automatically proof of B, But it isn't... "Smaug, in the book, "The Hobbit" is an example of a dragon."... yet dragons do not exist, and thus nothing is proven. | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 16:19 | answer | added | Edwin Ashworth | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 12:29 | answer | added | alphabet | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 10:13 | answer | added | bookmanu | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 9:09 | answer | added | user405662 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 8:29 | comment | added | Xanne | Emblematic covers the first, but not the second. | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 8:13 | answer | added | KillingTime | timeline score: 3 | |
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| S Jan 6, 2023 at 8:00 | history | asked | Rishil Mehta | CC BY-SA 4.0 |