The Science of Judicial Proof, as Given by Logic, Psychology, and General Experience, and Illustrated in Judicial Trials

Wigmore, J. H. (1937). The Science of Judicial Proof, as Given by Logic, Psychology, and General Experience, and Illustrated in Judicial Trials.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1937

Link

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL22139685Wmatched

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history_historiography, mathematics

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Primes

• Consistency
  • Narrative and testimony. A witness account, a novel, or a film is internally consistent when its facts and timeline are jointly satisfiable, and detecting an inconsistency is the primary tool of cross-examination and of plot debugging.

    This sourceFoundational treatment of detecting inconsistency in testimony as the basis of cross-examination.

• Primary vs. Secondary Sources
  • Wigmore's (1937) chart-method for analyzing judicial proof anticipates this failure mode: every inferential step in an argument must terminate at an item of primary evidence, and chains that loop only among secondary inferences are flagged as evidentially ungrounded.

    This sourceDevelops the chart-method for analyzing argument structure: every inferential step must terminate at an item of primary evidence, and chains looping only among secondary inferences are flagged as evidentially ungrounded.

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