Burdens of proof

作者：Allen Ronald J^*

来源：Law, Probability and Risk: A Journal of Reasoning under Uncertainty , 2014, 13(3-4): 195-219.

DOI：10.1093/lpr/mgu005

• evidence
• proof
• burdens of proof
• burden of persuasion and production
• epistemology
• decision theory inference to the best explanation
• abduction

The conceptual foundations of burdens of proof are examined, and the unified theory of evidentiary devices derivable from those foundations is explicated. Both the conceptual foundations and the unified theory generated are shown to rest on questionable assumptions about conventional probability theory. The resulting analytical difficulties are analyzed. Inference to the best explanation and the relative plausibility theory are examined as potentially providing the foundation to a superior conceptualization of the burden of proof.

• 出版日期2014-12
• 单位西北大学