Some Matters That Influence the Law of Evidence and the Workings of Proof

The following general matters (among many others) influence the shape of the law of evidence:

Ignorance (incomplete knowledge of the world)
Uncertainty (inconclusive evidence & uncertain evidential inference)
Time (proof as temporal process, pretrial investigation, and the like)
Rhetoric (persuasion, advocacy, similar matters)
Scarcity (scarcity of resources, efficiency concerns)
Social values (culture [including, e.g., the value attached to "freedom"], similar matters)
Political concerns
Historical practice
Accident

Other variables might be listed in addition to or within the above classes of variables, constraints, purposes, "interests," etc. For example:

Religious beliefs
Social harmony
Crime reduction
Market efficiency
Family stability
Human mortality
Patriotism (nationalism, ethnocentrism, etc.)
etc.

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