indirect evidence

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But indirect evidence suggests it could have already slowed by around 15% over the last couple of centuries, although not all scientists agree.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

It was only a few years ago, though, that the first indirect evidence emerged that the various combinations of these force fields can indeed "distinguish" between the two mirror images of a molecule.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

“They’re indirect evidence that we are probably not that far off from AGI,” Goertzel said in March at a conference on deep learning at Florida Atlantic University.

From Scientific American • May 11, 2023

In addition to Hamilton, Mason and Madison's pronouncements, there is also indirect evidence.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2023

While we can’t get inside a Neanderthal mind to understand how they thought, we have indirect evidence of the limits to their cognition compared with their Sapiens rivals.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari