Vegas » 42 minutes ago » wrote: ↑
@Blackvegetable here is a little history lesson:The
idea of the burden of proof is extremely old—well over 2,000 years old.The clearest early formulation comes from
Roman law. The Roman jurist
Julius Paulus (Paul), around the late 2nd/early 3rd century CE, expressed the principle essentially as:
The underlying idea is even older. Greek philosophers and rhetoricians—especially in the
- 4th century BCE: Greeks develop systematic ideas about argument, demonstration, assertion, and refutation.
- 2nd–3rd century CE: Roman jurists explicitly formulate something recognizably equivalent to the modern burden of proof.
- Medieval period onward: Roman legal principles are incorporated into European law, theology, scholastic disputation, and philosophy.
I be poppin' a cap in yo ***....
Jamal Washington
Baltimore Philosopher
2020