![]() But I make sense of the phrase with a peculiar mental picture: I envision movement towards some light-source symbolizing Truth – maybe the same light-source that illuminated Plato’s cave – and as you get closer and closer, you move past and beyond those doubts that surround truth, passing up their outward-leaning shadows in the process. The use of this term in law and philosophy seems to revolve around the idea that a shadow is an insubstantial trace of something – if there’s not even a shadow of a doubt, there’s effectively no doubt at all. €œBeyond the shadow of a doubt†has always felt a bit strange to me because I don’t usually think of doubts as casting shadows.
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