BV has said a lot of sub-retarded comments, but this one has to be in the top 3. Post #814690 • Liberal Forum

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.

Vegas » 12 Aug 2026, 10:16 am » wrote: ↑
12 Aug 2026, 10:16 am

@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.

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