Then maybe I’m mixing up terms and should make a better mental separation between “evidence” and “data.” In that case “data” is in the territory (and the term I should have used in my previous post), while “evidence” can mean different things in different contexts. Logical evidence, empirical evidence, legal evidence, and so on, all have different standards. In that case I don’t know if there is necessarily a consistent definition beyond “what someone will accept as a convincing reason to reach a conclusion to a certain kind of question,” but I’m not at all confident in that.
Then maybe I’m mixing up terms and should make a better mental separation between “evidence” and “data.” In that case “data” is in the territory (and the term I should have used in my previous post), while “evidence” can mean different things in different contexts. Logical evidence, empirical evidence, legal evidence, and so on, all have different standards. In that case I don’t know if there is necessarily a consistent definition beyond “what someone will accept as a convincing reason to reach a conclusion to a certain kind of question,” but I’m not at all confident in that.