A paradigm shift is underway in scholarship on legal fact-finding. Recent work clearly and consistently suggests that persuasion is the product of purely comparative assessments of factual propositions. This paper comments on the philosophical roots of the comparative paradigm. It also highlights two outstanding challenges for the comparative approach: (1) specification of a purely comparative test for the beyond a reasonable doubt standard, and (2) articulation of the mechanics by which unspecific or disjunctive factual propositions are supposed to be weighed in comparative fact-finding.

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比较实况调查面临的挑战

关于法律实况调查的学术研究正在发生范式转变。最近的工作清楚而一致地表明，说服是对事实命题进行纯粹比较评估的产物。本文评论了比较范式的哲学根源。它还强调了比较方法的两个突出挑战：（1）对排除合理怀疑标准的纯粹比较测试的规范，以及（2）阐明在比较中应该权衡不具体或分离的事实命题的机制。事实调查。