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It does not follow that, because interpretation plays a necessary part in
establishing the facts of history, and because no existing interpretation is wholly
objective, one interpretation is as good as another, and the facts of history are in
principle ...
It does not follow that, because interpretation plays a necessary part in
establishing the facts of history, and because no existing interpretation is wholly
objective, one interpretation is as good as another, and the facts of history are in
principle ...
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What, then, do we mean when we praise a historian for being objective, or say
that one historian is more objective than another? Not, it is clear, simply that he
gets his facts right, but rather that he chooses the right facts, or, in other words,
that ...
What, then, do we mean when we praise a historian for being objective, or say
that one historian is more objective than another? Not, it is clear, simply that he
gets his facts right, but rather that he chooses the right facts, or, in other words,
that ...
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Even science, as we have seen, is now less concerned to investigate and
establish objective laws of nature, than to frame working hypotheses by which
man may be enabled to harness nature to his purposes and transform his
environment.
Even science, as we have seen, is now less concerned to investigate and
establish objective laws of nature, than to frame working hypotheses by which
man may be enabled to harness nature to his purposes and transform his
environment.
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The Historian and His Facts | 3 |
Society and the Individual | 36 |
History Science and Morality | 70 |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | What is history? George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures Trevelyan lectures The George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961 |
| Autor | Edward Hallett Carr |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Knopf, 1962 |
| Länge | 209 Seiten |
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