In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

  • -- Simon Greenleaf 格林利夫

在事实的审判中,通过口头证词,正确的调查不是看证词是否可能是假的,而是看是否有足够的可能性证明它是真的。

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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

每一个事实一方面与感觉有关,另一方面又与道德有关。思想的游戏是,在这两方面的一个方面出现后,找到另一个方面:给定上面的一面,找到下面的一面。

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

爱是免费的;承诺永远爱同一个女人并不比承诺相信同一个信条更荒谬;在这两种情况下,这样的誓言把我们排除在一切调查之外。

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

我不喜欢说唱界的女性如此之少。