Hi Michael
See http://www.springerlink.com/content/d2l648p0jh523125/
Remembering also that if a word doesn't exist that will explain what you
mean then you have to make one up ...
Pam
Michael Bolik wrote:
> Does anyone have a quick and easy definition of the word "evidentiariness"?
>
> In case you think I just made it up, it has been used in some publications - for example Richard L. Levin's collection of essays "Looking for an Argument."
>
> http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PvZYaJmH6LcC&pg=PA150&dq=evidentiariness&sig=ACfU3U3OICG0MqVc96BABH7zE6hi3taQ5Q"
>
> However, in an archival context, it was used in the following abstract:
>
> "Conceptual Analysis: A Method for Understanding Information as Evidence, and Evidence as Information"
> Author: Furner, Jonathan1
> Source: Archival Science, Volume 4, Numbers 3-4, December 2004 , pp. 233-265(33)
> Abstract:
> The utility of conceptual analysis for archival science is assessed by means of an exploratory evaluation in which the concept of evidence is
> analyzed. Usage of the term "evidence" in the philosophies of science, law, and history is briefly reviewed; candidates for necessary
> conditions of evidentiariness are identified and examined; and taxonomies are built of evidentiariness and of archival inference.
>
>
> If anyone can help, please reply off-list. I will be happy to pass on any information I receive to anyone desperate to know what "evidentiariness" means!
>
> Michael
>
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