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The earliest known use of the noun preponderance is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for preponderance is from 1681, in the writing of Nehemiah Grew, botanist and physician. preponderance is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: preponderant adj., ‑ance suffix.
The earliest known use of the noun preponderancy is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for preponderancy is from 1646, in the writing of Thomas Browne, physician and author. preponderancy is of multiple origins.
Equating the term "preponderance of evidence" with a pass mark of 50% carries with it the assumption that evidence comes in uniform packets that can be counted. In fact the prevailing metaphor in the law is that evidence is "weighed"; a view that reflects that two claims may have very different worth.
Jul 16, 2014 · Although much has been written on the history of the requirement of proof of crimes beyond a reasonable doubt, this is the first study to probe the history of its civil counterpart, proof by a preponderance of the evidence. It turns out that the criminal standard did not diverge from a preexisting civil standard, but vice versa.
- John Leubsdorf
- 2014
8 The arguments in this paper will be verbal not mathematical; for mathematical proofs see my working paper [5]. 9 In technical terms this means that the sanction should be applied when the likelihood ratio exceeds one. 10 For convenience, the term illegal is used even though we may be dealing with e.g. a breach of contract. 9
The earliest known use of the verb preponderate is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for preponderate is from 1611, in the writing of John Speed, historian and cartographer. preponderate is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin praeponderāt-, praeponderāre. See etymology.
[1913] ‘Behaviorist Manifesto’, the emphasis on animal research in learning theory (which became the major research thrust in American psychology), and the banning of the concept of consciousness, a momentum was created that mostly suppressed ques-tions concerning the role of the observer in constructing knowledge in psychology.
