forensic
Courtroom evidence type
Forensic relates to courts of law or public debate.
The core meaning involves formal argumentation—forensic rhetoric, forensic evidence presented in legal proceedings.
In modern use, forensic almost always means applying scientific methods to criminal investigation: forensic pathology, forensic accounting, forensic analysis of the hard drive.
The noun forensics refers to these investigative techniques or, in academic contexts, competitive debate.
Facts supporting truth
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- fingerprintsRidge patterns identifying individuals
- ballisticsProjectile motion science
- autopsyMedical examination after death
pathology · trace · analysis · laboratory · examiner · detective · case · testimony
Disease diagnosis specialist
- autopsyMedical examination after death
- toxicologyScience of poisons
- morgueCorpse holding facility
- corpseDeceased human body
cadaver · post-mortem · exhumation · coroner · decomposition · entomology · odontology · anthropology
Systematic reasoning process
- rebuttalFormal response disputing claims
- cross-examinationOpposing party questions witness
- refutationDisproving a statement
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
persuasion · oratory · logic · resolution · contention · affirmative · negative · constructive
evidence
Facts supporting truth
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- fingerprintsRidge patterns identifying individuals
- ballisticsProjectile motion science
autopsy · pathology · trace · analysis · laboratory · examiner · detective · case · testimony · prosecution
pathologist
Disease diagnosis specialist
- autopsyMedical examination after death
- toxicologyScience of poisons
- morgueCorpse holding facility
corpse · cadaver · post-mortem · exhumation · coroner · decomposition · entomology · odontology · anthropology · serology
argumentation
Systematic reasoning process
- rebuttalFormal response disputing claims
- cross-examinationOpposing party questions witness
- refutationDisproving a statement
rhetoric · persuasion · oratory · logic · resolution · contention · affirmative · negative · constructive · judges
- cop filmsBeverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon, Hot Fuzz, RoboCop, Dirty Harry
- professional fieldsmedical, legal, technical, financial, scientific
- speaking stylesarticulate, blunt, candid, conversational, casual
- forensicsDNA, DNA analysis, fingerprints, fingerprint, fingerprint analysis
- rhetoricrhetoric, persuasion, oratory, argumentation, debate
- Classical Rhetoricoration, oratory, declamation, panegyric, encomium
forensicspeculative
Based on conjecture
theoretical · anecdotal · impressionistic · casual · unscientific
forensicinadmissible
Not allowed as evidence
off-the-record · unofficial · unsubstantiated · hearsay · extrajudicial
- forensic pathologyMedical death investigation
- forensic evidenceScientific material proving crimes
- forensic scientistExamines physical evidence legally
- forensic pathologistDoctor investigating suspicious deaths
- forensic scienceScientific criminal investigation
- forensic expertScientific crime investigator
forensics, forensically, forensic science, forensic accounting, forensic medicine