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Jan. 4, 2014

How the law thinks in its search for the truth

In "The Legal Mind," Daniel W. Park explores how the law finds facts in the face of deliberate deception, the fallibility of memory, the frailty of vision, and the ambiguity of language.


Why is it so hard to prove that someone else is lying? In "The Legal Mind," Daniel W. Park explores how the law finds facts in the face of deliberate deception, the fallibility of memory, the frailty of vision, and the ambiguity of language. The following is an excerpt on the difficulty of proving what you know to be true.


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