导言:查明真相之重要在任何情况下,发现事实真相(Finding the truth)都是一件困难的工作,而在事关罪与罚的情境下,发现事实真相则几乎是不可能的。即使我们假定,存在一个客观的“真实”(an objective“reality”),并且,人类在一般意义上有能力以某种充分的形式确定并描述它,以至于我们能够合理地区分真和假(truth and falsehood),却很难找到一种制度安排比刑事诉讼更不利于发现“事实 Introduction: The Importance of Identifying the Truth In any case, Finding the truth is a difficult task, and in the context of crimes and punishments it is almost impossible to discover the truth. Even if we assume that there is an objective ”an objective“ ”reality,“ and that human beings in general have the ability to determine and describe it in a sufficient form so that we can reasonably distinguish True and falsehood, it is hard to find a system that is more detrimental to discovery than criminal proceedings. ”