R0050/2026-03-31/Q002/SRC02

Research	R0050 — Journalism and Other Truth-Seeking Disciplines
Run	2026-03-31
Query	Q002
Search	S01
Result	S01-R02
Source	SRC02

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — The Legal Concept of Evidence

Source

Field	Value
Title	The Legal Concept of Evidence
Publisher	Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Author(s)	Stanford Encyclopedia contributors
Date	Current
URL	https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evidence-legal/
Type	Philosophical analysis

Summary

Dimension	Rating
Reliability	High
Relevance	High
Bias: Missing data	Low risk
Bias: Measurement	N/A
Bias: Selective reporting	Low risk
Bias: Randomization	N/A
Bias: Protocol deviation	N/A
Bias: COI/Funding	Low risk

Rationale

Dimension	Rationale
Reliability	Stanford Encyclopedia is a peer-reviewed academic reference
Relevance	Directly compares legal and scientific evidence concepts, identifying what is distinctive to law
Bias flags	None significant

Evidence Extracts

Evidence ID	Summary
SRC02-E01	Legal evidence law contributes nine genuinely novel concepts not found in scientific frameworks