Timeline for Word for "drawing a decisive conclusion about a phenomenon according to specific personal experience"
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| Dec 9, 2012 at 0:55 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | @FumbleFingers, I see your point. I guess I would still want to question any anecdotal statement. I probably would call the source to turn hearsay to something more verifiable. Lol! | |
| Dec 9, 2012 at 0:22 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Okay, so you're A in the example. If I were B, I might reply "No it's not! Phone her up if you don't believe me!" Would my case be weakened if she failed to answer the phone? (she can't work it, don't forget! :) Seriously, I think dismissing evidence from the sister of someone you're actually speaking to as "hearsay" sounds at the very least provocative. What if it was B's wife? Or even B himself? You have to believe some of the people some of the time. | |
| Dec 9, 2012 at 0:11 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | @FumbleFingers, maybe it's just me but if someone said to me what OP used for her example, I would say "that's just hearsay! I can't go by that!" | |
| Dec 9, 2012 at 0:02 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I don't think this is right. Outside the legal context, hearsay wouldn't normally be used in respect of the known, uncontested evidence/experience of a speaker's sister. It's invariably used in respect of things said by unknown/unspecified people. | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 23:17 | history | answered | Kristina Lopez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |