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    Challenges→Epistemic theories of standards of proof are flawed as applied to actual legal systems.

    Epistemic theories make epistemological demands that are impossible to satisfy in practice.

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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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