conviction raisonnée

Watching stub — first seen 2026-08-29 in the promotion of the 2026-08-27 preuve-légale capture; stamped early because a first-seen date cannot be backfilled. Promote to a full hub only if the term recurs or a claim-note comes to rest load-bearingly on it.

The rule-bound counter-doctrine that emerged in reaction to the revolutionary generation's subjective intime conviction. Where the revolutionaries (via Thouret) held the fact-finder's inner conviction to be an intuitive, unforceable feeling (claim-thouret-framed-intime-conviction-as-unforceable-inner-certainty), proponents of conviction raisonnée insisted that conviction must instead rest on a reasoned, high degree of probability — that it should be able to show its work. Per R. G. Bloemberg (entity-r-g-bloemberg), the split between conviction intime and conviction raisonnée marks where confidence in untutored certainty began to be walked back. Not yet independently sourced in this vault beyond Bloemberg's article.