onus probandi
Americannoun
noun
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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
On the contrary, we throw the full onus probandi on the side of the conclusion, and we refuse to assent to it at all, until we can assent to it altogether.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry
But when we look for a proof of this daring assertion, we are told that the onus probandi rests upon us.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, February, 1865 by Various
It has certainly not undergone compression, and, in reply to the suggestion that the skull is that of an idiot, it may be urged that the onus probandi lies with those who adopt the hypothesis.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)
But still the onus probandi lies with those who maintain the Sinhalese origin of any part of the Pali Canon and two strong arguments support the Indian origin of the major part.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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