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Fischer's 7 rules for historians taken from [[Josh McDowell]]'s book The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict:
Fischer's 7 rules for historians taken from [[Josh McDowell]]'s book The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict:
'''1.''' The burden of proof for a historical claim is always upon the one making the assertion.
'''2.''' Historical evidence must be an answer to the question asked and not to any other question.
'''3.''' "An historian must not merely provide good evidence, but the best evidence. And the best evidence, all other things being equal, is the evidence which is most nearly immediate to the event itself."
'''4.''' Evidence must always be affirmative. Negative evidence is no evidence at all. In other words, Fischer is saying that an absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence.
'''5.''' The meaning of any historical evidence is dependent upon the context from which it is obtained from.
'''6.''' "An empirical statement must not be more precise than its evidence warrants."
'''7.''' "All inferences from historical evidence are probabilistic."
Josh McDowell's Evidence that Demands a Verdict, page 674, 1999, Mark MCGarry, Texas Type and Book Works, Dallas, TX, ISBN 0-7852-4219-8)
(Source: Josh McDowell's Evidence that Demands a Verdict, page 674, 1999, Mark MCGarry, Texas Type and Book Works, Dallas, TX, ISBN 0-7852-4219-8)
== Evidence and the law ==
== Evidence and the law ==