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The clue to the question of prediction in history lies in this distinction between the
general and the specific , between ... in so doing , he provides general guides for
future action which , though not specific predictions , are both valid and useful .
The clue to the question of prediction in history lies in this distinction between the
general and the specific , between ... in so doing , he provides general guides for
future action which , though not specific predictions , are both valid and useful .
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may be warned in advance by the prediction of consequences unwelcome to
them , and be induced by it to modify their action , so that the prediction , however
correctly based on the analysis , proves self - frustrating . One reason why history
...
may be warned in advance by the prediction of consequences unwelcome to
them , and be induced by it to modify their action , so that the prediction , however
correctly based on the analysis , proves self - frustrating . One reason why history
...
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We live in an epoch when — not for the first time in history — predictions of world
catastrophe are in the air , and weigh heavily on all . They can be neither proved
nor disproved . But they are at any rate far less certain than the prediction that ...
We live in an epoch when — not for the first time in history — predictions of world
catastrophe are in the air , and weigh heavily on all . They can be neither proved
nor disproved . But they are at any rate far less certain than the prediction that ...
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Introductory Note | ix |
Notes towards a Second | xvii |
The Historian and His Facts | 1 |
Urheberrecht | |
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| Titel | What is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961 @Trevelyan lectures given at the University of Cambridge George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures The Trevelyan lectures |
| Autoren | Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies |
| Herausgeber | Robert William Davies |
| Ausgabe | 2, illustriert |
| Verlag | Macmillan, 1986 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 5. Juni 2008 |
| ISBN | 0333389565, 9780333389560 |
| Länge | 154 Seiten |
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