Proof and Reference

Proof

Proof noun - Something presented in support of the truth or accuracy of a claim.

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Reference and proof are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reference" instead a noun "Proof".

Nearby Words: proofed, proofing

Reference noun - Something mentioned in a text as providing related and especially supporting information.

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Proof and reference are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Proof" instead a noun "Reference".

full	full proof	full reference
clear	clear proof	clear reference
common	common proof	common reference
direct	direct proof	direct reference
Other adjectives: original, obvious, actual, real, little, possible, apparent, further, last, visual.

Another non-Hitchcock reference is when Brophy enlarges one of his photographs to find proof of Thorndyke's innocence, taken straight from Blow Up (which was at least influenced by Hitchcock).

Source: Film / High Anxiety
Proof can even be found in the oft-reference "crawl out the TV" scene: whilst an almost iconic scene for the series, it doesn't happen once in the books.

Source: Adaptation Displacement / Live-Action Film
A very wide variety of examples can be found in Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, in which recursion and self-reference, particularly applied to mathematical proof about the nature of mathematical proof, are major themes.

Source: Recursive Reality

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