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The controversy about periodization in history falls into the category. The division
of history into periods is not a fact, but a necessary hypothesis or tool of thought,
valid in so far as it is illuminating, and dependent for its validity on interpretation.
The controversy about periodization in history falls into the category. The division
of history into periods is not a fact, but a necessary hypothesis or tool of thought,
valid in so far as it is illuminating, and dependent for its validity on interpretation.
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But this does not mean that these laws are worthless, or not in principle valid.
Modern physical theories, we are told, deal only with the probabilities of events
taking place. Today science is more inclined to remember that induction can
logically ...
But this does not mean that these laws are worthless, or not in principle valid.
Modern physical theories, we are told, deal only with the probabilities of events
taking place. Today science is more inclined to remember that induction can
logically ...
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If two or three children in a school develop measles, you will conclude that the
epidemic will spread; and this prediction, if you care to call it such, is based on a
generalization from past experience, and is a valid and useful guide to action.
If two or three children in a school develop measles, you will conclude that the
epidemic will spread; and this prediction, if you care to call it such, is based on a
generalization from past experience, and is a valid and useful guide to action.
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Inhalt
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 |
| Autor | Edward Hallett Carr |
| Verlag | Vintage Books, 1961 |
| Original von | University of California |
| Digitalisiert | 24. Juni 2009 |
| Länge | 209 Seiten |
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