Republicans who blast FBI's Trump search are prepping to snag Joe in a Hunter Biden probe
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Proof is the beyond reasonable doubt, evidence is the steps taken to get there. Your knife being in the murdered's house is evidence, but its not proof because it could be innocuous. At least that's my understanding.
Gotcha. Thanks.
So the distinction is more of a legal one.
In lay terms, proof and evidence are used fairly interchangeably.
His example is good but it's not only a legal distinction. Colloquially I think mixing them up is even worse because while in a legal setting all the parties will know exactly what their own jargon means, to a lay person proof carries a connotation of "being proven and factual" that evidence does not. We all know you might need lots of evidence to prove something, but nobody says "ok so you've got proof but is it enough proof to prove it?" Admittedly the words are synonymous but I would never use them interchangeably if I wanted to be precise. And journalism should be a technical, pedantic field as much as a court of law should be. Instead, news writers like to play with synonyms to sway emotions one way or another. Had they used "proof" in all the above examples over the last two years, some normies might wonder "Ok so it's not proven, but maybe they had some evidence?" And we can't allow that.
I can understand the distinction and your point, but I think your expectations for the lay public and journalists is highly unrealistic and mostly semantics.
As a highly-educated and (hopefully) above-average intelligence adult, the distinction had never before occurred to me and even now remains fairly tenuous.
I simply do not ascribe to ignorance what can be attributed to malice. TV anchors are beyond retarded yes, but the influential urinalists who crafted this narrative know what they're doing and would put Goebbels to shame. Reason 250 why I gradually began to hate them...