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The one person in the room who doesn't need evidence to feel certain.
means Someone who formally charges another person with wrongdoing, or more loosely, anyone who points the finger of blame.
from Traces back through Old French 'acuser' to Latin 'accusare' — 'ad-' (toward) plus 'causa' (cause, legal case) — literally meaning to bring a case against someone. The same root that gives us 'cause' and 'excuse,' so the accuser and the excuse were always linguistic cousins, forever arguing opposite sides of the same case.
- legal flip
- burden of proof is theirs, not the accused's
- etymology
- from latin accusare, to call to account
- psychology
- certainty often outpaces the facts behind it
- biblical echo
- satan literally means the accuser in hebrew