Representing Reality: Strategies of Realism in the Early English Novel

Bond, Clinton

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“…It need not be just a given author or a given genre; for other cultural contexts other parameters may more relevantly apply. Clinton Bond (1994) discusses realism in the early English novel, with the intent 'to discover what the unspoken and elusive claims of realistic ctions were ' (p. 122). 'The novel's claim to be real, even-perhaps, particularly-while recognised as ction, lies at the very heart of the genre, and should be seen less as a bizarre attempt to pass ction as true than as a characteristic strategy built on the assertion that novels occupy exactly the same world-ideological and concrete-as their readers' (p. 123).…”

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The Jama Legal Narrative Part II: A Foray into Concepts of Improbability

Nissan¹

2001

Information & Communications Technology Law

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In judicial decision making, the doctrine of chances takes explicitly into account the odds. There is more to forensic statistics, as well as various probabilistic approaches, which taken together form the object of an enduring controversy in the scholarship of legal evidence. In this paper, I reconsider the circumstances of the Jama murder and inquiry (dealt with in Part I of this paper: 'The JAMA Model and Narrative Interpretation Patterns'), to illustrate yet another kind of probability or improbability. What is improbable about the Jama story is actually a given, which contributes in terms of dramatic underlining. In literary theory, concepts of narratives being probable or improbable date back from the eighteenth century, when both prescienti c and scienti c probability were in ltrating several domains, including law. An understanding of such a backdrop throughout the history of ideas is, I claim, necessary for Arti cial Intelligence (AI) researchers who may be tempted to apply statistical methods to legal evidence. The debate for or against probability (and especially Bayesian probability) in accounts of evidence has been ourishing among legal scholars; nowadays both the Bayesians (e.g. Peter Tillers) and the Bayesio-skeptics (e.g. Ron Allen), among those legal scholars who are involved in the controversy, are willing to give AI research a chance to prove itself and strive towards models of plausibility that would go beyond probability as narrowly meant. This debate within law, in turn, has illustrious precedents: take Voltaire, he was critical of the application of probability even to litigation in civil cases; take Boole, he was a starry-eyed believer in probability applications to judicial decision making. Not unlike Boole, the founding father of computing, nowadays computer scientists approaching the eld may happen to do so without full awareness of the pitfalls. Hence, the usefulness of the conceptual landscape I sketch here.

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The Jama Legal Narrative Part II: A Foray into Concepts of Improbability

Nissan¹

2001

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Representing Reality: Strategies of Realism in the Early English Novel

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The Jama Legal Narrative Part II: A Foray into Concepts of Improbability

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