circumstantial evidence
Noun
Meaning
evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
Circumstantial evidence is evidence.
Circumstantial evidence only raises a probability.
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence.