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    Supports→A finding of liability based on bare statistical evidence is unsafe and therefore should not be entered.

    A finding based on bare statistical evidence can easily be wrong because little in the actual world needs to change for it to be wrong.

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    On a different epistemic interpretation, the evidence is sufficient to meet a legal standard of proof, and a finding of legal liability is permissible, only if the factfinder can gain knowledge of the defendant’s liability—to be precise, of the material facts establishing such liability—from the evidence (Duff et al. 2007: 87–91; Pardo 2010; for a critical overview of knowledge-centered accounts, see Gardiner forthcoming). High probability of liability alone will not suffice. On more subtle know

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