onus probandi
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Thus he lodges the onus probandi with those who impugn the received accounts; but Mr. Grote and Sir George Lewis throw it upon those who defend them.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry
The interpolation hypothesis, as I said, is easily advanced, but the onus probandi must needs lie heavily against it.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by Sanday, William
But it must be proven that the defect exists—and the onus probandi rests upon Mr. Mallock.
From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by Spargo, John
The onus probandi is with those who assert what it is unnatural to expect; to be just able to doubt is no warrant for disbelieving.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
The great difficulty to my mind was the onus probandi.
From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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