Introduction to Symposium on Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence: The Uses and Limits of Bayesianism

Tillers, Peter

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Introduction to Symposium on Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence: The Uses and Limits of Bayesianism

Peter Tillers

Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 3-4, 1986

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Introduction to a Seminal Issue of the Boston University Law Review on the Use of Various Formal Theories - including Probability Theory and Bayes' Theorem - to Dissect Factual Inference and Proof in Litigation

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Keywords: evidence, inference, induction, factual proof, Bayesianism, Baconianism, epistemology, probability, philosophy

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Date posted: May 21, 2008

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Tillers, Peter, Introduction to Symposium on Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence: The Uses and Limits of Bayesianism. Boston University Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 3-4, 1986. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1135012

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