Inquiry and Advocacy, Fallibilism and Finality: Culture and Inference in Science and the Law
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Inquiry and Advocacy, Fallibilism and Finality: Culture and Inference in Science and the Law
Law, Probability and Risk, Vol. 2, pp. 205-214, 2003, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-13
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 20 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 08 Aug 2011
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Abstract
Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent...[Linus Pauling] If ...a judge [is] presiding over the hearing of a case, that cause must be decided somehow, no matter how defective the evidence may be... But the idea of science is to pile the ground before the foot of the outworks of truth with the carcasses of this generation, and perhaps of others to come after it, until some future generation, by treading on them, can storm the citadel. [C. S. Peirce]
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Haack, Susan, Inquiry and Advocacy, Fallibilism and Finality: Culture and Inference in Science and the Law. Law, Probability and Risk, Vol. 2, pp. 205-214, September 2003 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=805057
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