legal-epistemology

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Bloemberg frames the French abolition of legal proofs as jointly caused by epistemological change and a political distrust of professional judges — not by epistemology alone

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-29 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, preuve-legale, intime-conviction, french-revolution
Thouret framed revolutionary intime conviction as an intuitive, unforceable inner certainty — 'the surest criterion of Human truth'

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-29 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, intime-conviction, french-revolution, legal-epistemology
Did the French Revolution abolish the système de preuve légale for intime conviction because a priori evidentiary rules were judged epistemically untenable — and do the AJLH quotes read verbatim?

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-27 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, preuve-legale, intime-conviction, french-revolution
When proof came in fractions — the medieval law that arithmetized evidence, forbade summing it, and tortured to make up the difference

topic map 2026-08-16 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, preuve-legale, torture
Did two half-proofs combine into full proof in Roman-canon law — and was that combination genuinely barred in grave criminal cases requiring proof 'clearer than the noonday sun'?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, medieval-law
The continental 'full proof' standard of being 'clearer than the midday sun' is attested independently of the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia, via Whitman citing Alessi Palazzolo

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, medieval-law
An 18th-century French jurist's maxim, preserved in Garraud's appendix to Esmein's 1913 volume, states directly that two half-proofs cannot make a full proof

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, medieval-law
The French Revolution abolished the système de preuve légale, replacing fixed proof-weights with jurors' intime conviction

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, preuve-legale, intime-conviction, french-revolution
DUP-RISK: the Amari/Saito and Gates seed notes bridge through the medieval half-proof rule — but the concept is already in the vault

note promoted 2026-07-11 · half-proof, verification, myth-ledger, primary-source-verification, legal-epistemology
The medieval law of proof developed the concepts of uncertain reasoning yet refused to quantify them — no quarter-proofs, and its heirs still bar Bayesian math from court

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, probability, history-of-mathematics, legal-epistemology
Two half-proofs on the same point could combine into full proof — except in grave criminal cases, where proof had to be 'clearer than the noonday sun'

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, medieval-law
Did two half-proofs combine into full proof in Roman-canon law — and was that combination genuinely barred in grave criminal cases requiring proof 'clearer than the noonday sun'?

question open 2026-07-11 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, verification