If the historical origin of hearsay and similar rules reflects adversarial procedural interests rather than reliability concerns, their aggregate epistemic benefits cannot be assumed without independent empirical verification.

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Epistemic: "Epistemic" relates to knowledge—how we know things, what counts as knowledge, and whether we can trust what we believe to be true. It comes from the Greek word for knowledge and is used to describe questions about the reliability and validity of our beliefs and understanding. For example, "epistemic humility" means acknowledging the limits of what you can actually know for certain.
Reliability concerns(as used in epistemology and law): Worries about whether something will consistently give you accurate, trustworthy results.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry): A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
hearsay(Mohist epistemology): The reports of other people, treated by the Mohists as a source of knowledge on a par with observation and explanation

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