COGENT EVIDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cogent evidence mean? 

• COGENT EVIDENCE (noun)
  The noun COGENT EVIDENCE has 1 sense:

1. any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something

  Familiarity information: COGENT EVIDENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COGENT EVIDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cogent evidence; proof

Context example:

if you have any proof for what you say, now is the time to produce it

Hypernyms ("cogent evidence" is a kind of...):

evidence; grounds (your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cogent evidence"):

check; confirmation; substantiation; verification (additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct)

establishment; validation (the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof)