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written contracts also in business negotiations. We can say that the strategy of
evidence has developed historically from regarding the personal subjects as
primary to regarding impersonal objects as the most trustworthy.

CONCLUSION

Proof, evidence, and what is generally characterized as legally valid
phenomena are always related to a previous question. The evidence does not
exist in any other forms than as answers to this question that constitute the
basis for an investigation. It is always important to establish a connection
between the questioning and the evidencing, between the question and the
proofs. A pure ―fact‖—if we can ever talk about such a thing – doubtless can
never work as evidence. If the relationship between questions and evidence
already has a complex correlation, then it would be even more complex to
think about the questions that can be applied to evidence. Within different
scientific traditions, the evidencing has different roles and is based on various
methods, from empirically based protocols to personal intuition.

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