PureX
Veteran Member
I'm not going to have a discussion with anyone who thinks they are going to decide for me what is and is not evidence. Possibilities are evidence. The fact that it's possible for Bob to have killed his wife is certainly evidence, just as a set of facts that show that he could not have killed his wife would also be evidence.OK, first of all, possibility is not evidence. Possible and probable are not related. Secondly, there are no non-observable facts. Break it down and you will see. How do you determine that it was possible for Bob to kill his wife. Because you have physical evidence of where he was, what transportation was available to him, etc.
I agree that a possibility is not a probability. However, possibilities effect the probability, just as impossibilities do. If it is impossible for Bob to have killed his wife, because he was in jail at the time his wife was killed, then it's going to be considered highly improbable that he did it. Possibility effects probability.
And I believe there is unobservable evidence as well, regarding how Bob felt about his wife. Did he love her? Did he hate her? Was she heavily insured? Was she wanting to leave him?