conflicting strongly conflicting A conflicting concordance for evidence lines that are strongly conflicting. CIO:0000035 We distinguish two levels of conflict: weak conflict between evidence lines, e.g., a low confidence evidence negating an assertion, versus several high confidence evidence lines supporting the assertion; and strong conflict between evidence lines, e.g., two high confidence evidence lines contradicting each other. Note that strongly conflicting evidence lines are not used to produce confidence information statements associated to a confidence level (low, medium, high): in that case, the supported assertion is believed to need further validation, as evidence lines yield different conclusions of similar confidence. weakly conflicting