The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
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Probable cause
(law) evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest or search and seizure; "a magistrate determined that there was probable cause to search the house"
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Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Philosophy of science.The act or process of coercing.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Philosophy of science.The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subj…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Philosophy of science.The branch of law governing agreements and the obligations they create.
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Philosophy, Philosophy of science.A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Sources and evidence, Philosophy of science.That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or jud…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Sources and evidence, Philosophy of science.The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Sources and evidence, Philosophy of science.your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Sources and evidence, Philosophy of science.The act of inducing, or the state of being induced.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Philosophy of science.of Induce
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Philosophy of science.The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Philosophy of science.A flowing in or upon; influx.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Philosophy of science.The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Philosophy of science.The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due adm…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Philosophy, Philosophy of science.In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Philosophy, Philosophy of science.One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Sources and evidence, Philosophy of science.the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
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That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.Approbation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.A judgment, decision, or decree of a court or high tribunal; also, a decree of a sovereign.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and dete…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.A seal, as of a letter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evidence, sufficient, warrant, arrest, search.Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracit…
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