Specialists in industry of communicative linguistics, logic, eristic consider that proof (evidence) as a logical and methodological form of scientific cognition in the broadest sense is the process of establishing objective truth through practical and theoretical actions and tools. In a narrow interpretation, bringing called reasoning that establishes the truth of certain allegations by pointing to other allegations, the truth of which is already proven.
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