Many challenges to a probabilistic account of evidence fail to distinguish two separate questions. One is the question of whether the evaluation of individual items of evidence is probabilistic or non-probabilistic. And the other is whether the evaluation of multiple items of evidence is sequential (Bayesian) or holistic. This paper seeks to distinguish these issues, to argue that challenges to probabilistic accounts have not yet made their case, and to attempt to clarify just what a theory of evidence and proof is a theory of.

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迈向证据和证明元理论的一小步

对证据概率解释的许多挑战未能区分两个独立的问题。一个是对个别证据项目的评估是概率性的还是非概率性的问题。另一个是对多个证据项的评估是顺序的（贝叶斯）还是整体的。本文试图区分这些问题，论证对概率论的挑战尚未成立，并试图澄清证据和证明理论是什么理论。