Theory of Knowledge: 'A historian must combine the rigour of the scientist with the imagination of an artist.' To what extent, then, can the historian be confident about his her conclusions?
Title: Theory of Knowledge: 'A historian must combine the rigour of the scientist with the imagination of an artist.' To what extent, then, can the historian be confident about his her conclusions?
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Theory of Knowledge: 'A historian must combine the rigour of the scientist with the imagination of an artist.' To what extent, then, can the historian be confident about his her conclusions?
Category: /Literature/World Literature
Details: Words: 1234 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
In history as in all other areas of knowledge it is undoubtedly hard to reach specific certainties. In order to evaluate the conclusions, all ways of knowing are to be applied. The philosophy of history, or historiography, is to be addressed when evaluating these results. It is concerned with the concepts, methods and theories used in history: the study either of the historical process and its development or of the methods used by historians to …showed first 75 words of 1234 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1234 total…brings the conceptual apparatus by which the facts are ordered in the discourse to the surface of the text, while history proper (as it is called) buries it in the interior of the narrative, where it serves as a hidden or implicit shaping device...9 This demonstrates that the conclusions will never be quite objective, but it can be argued that with the certain degrees of imagination and rational analysis 'truths' can be established more accurately.