Writing doesn’t prove anything,
And it only rarely persuades.
It does something much better.
It attests.
It witnesses.
It shares your interest in what you’ve noticed.
It reports on the nature of your attention.
It suggest the possibilities of the world around you.
The evidence of the world as it presents itself to you.

Proof is for mathematicians.
Logic is for philosophers.
We have testimony.

Klinkenborg, Verlyn. Several Short Sentences about Writing. First Vintage books edition. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2013.