Any proposition whose warrant presupposes the falsity of hypothesis H cannot serve as independent evidence against H, since the evidential chain is viciously circular rather than genuinely supportive.
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proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.
warrant(Toulmin's model of argumentation)
An implicit premise that an argument depends on, which licenses the move from evidence to conclusion; in this context, the unstated assumption that normal misdemeanor penalties are insufficient as a deterrent.