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Technology - Revealing Or Framing The Truth? A Jurisprudential Debate, Dana Neacsu
Technology - Revealing Or Framing The Truth? A Jurisprudential Debate, Dana Neacsu
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Technology is so much more than a prosthetic. But how much more? And what else is it? In the legal realm, its role is not yet clear. Such a lack of elucidation becomes problematic, especially when technology has the ability to convert assumptions into facts, and it takes on a truth-making, rather than a mere truth-revealing mission. This Article argues that it is problematic to enable technology to stand in for reflective thinking, and calls attention to the fact that evidentiary rules enable technology to decide what can be proven, ergo what truth is. Technology is a fork in the …