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... positivist . Can positivism provide us with a better account of historical change than historism , i.e. can it supply a more convincing " subject of change " ? It must be admitted that the positivist's approach to the problem seems more ...
... positivist . Can positivism provide us with a better account of historical change than historism , i.e. can it supply a more convincing " subject of change " ? It must be admitted that the positivist's approach to the problem seems more ...
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... positivist's proposal allows for . And it is certainly true that when we make explicit all the implications of the positivist's proposal we find that these are not always in accord with our intuitions about change . An objection against ...
... positivist's proposal allows for . And it is certainly true that when we make explicit all the implications of the positivist's proposal we find that these are not always in accord with our intuitions about change . An objection against ...
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... positivist's argument . The decisive adventage of the narrativist over the positivist approach lies in the fact that the former does not require that the subject in the statements that add up to a Ns should all refer to the same indi ...
... positivist's argument . The decisive adventage of the narrativist over the positivist approach lies in the fact that the former does not require that the subject in the statements that add up to a Ns should all refer to the same indi ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 6 |
THE IDEAL NARRATIO | 29 |
THE SENTENCE AND THE NARRATIO | 58 |
Copyright | |
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17th century acceptable actual argued argument Chapter Cold War conclusion contain correspondence course criteria of identity described descriptive discussion entelechy essence exact sciences explain externalist fact falsity French Revolution historian historical knowledge historical novel historical reality historiography historists human idea ideal narratio identify individual statements individual things instance intensional type interpretation kind language Leibniz's Leibniz's law linguistic Louis XIV meaning ments metaphorical statements monads N₁ narra narrative historiography narrative idealism narrative logic narrative realism narrative statements narrative substances narrativist philosophy narrativist universe notion Ns Iint objective narratio particular past personal identity philosophy of history point of view positivist possible predicates problem properties proposal question reductionist refer relevant Renaissance scientific scope sentences sets of statements Sirian social sortal concept speak specific speculative philosophies structure subject of change subject-term T₁ theory thesis tion translation rules true truth typification of Nss writing of history