If facts themselves never prove or disprove anything, what else is involved in the proof of a statement?"

... "If facts themselves never prove or disprove anything, what else is involved in the proof of a statement?" Answer with reference to at least two Areas of Knowledge. The title assumes facts themselves never prove or disprove anything. I will show that this two-part assumption is incorrect. I believe facts can disprove incorrect propositions, but that they can not, by themselves, prove anything. I contend that proof is no more than adequate grounds for the acceptance of the proposition; admittedly, what counts as adequate and acceptable changes from one area of knowledge to another. Further, my position is that facts add to only one aspect of what we will consider as "proof", namely providing evidence for justifying ones knowledge. To prove a statement, in its purest sense, means to provide unshakable, undeniable and irrefutable grounds for the acceptance of the claim. Proof of a proposition, to this standard, is unobtainable in all areas

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