---
title: "conviction raisonnée"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "watching"
canonical_name: "conviction raisonnée"
aliases: ["reasoned conviction"]
first_seen: "2026-08-29T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-opus-4-8"
connects_to: ["intime conviction","free evaluation of the evidence","law of evidence (French, 19th c.)"]
seek_code_commit: "7d6d9ed"
---


*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 [[entity-jacques-guillaume-thouret|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.