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The Exemplifying Past

a Philosophy of History
ID 326536
Slug the-exemplifying-past-chiel-van-akker
Contributors
Author : Chiel van Akker
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Description This book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time. Point of departure is the distinction between events under the description of past witnesses and their contemporaries and events under the description of historians. Its main claim is that a thesis on the past is exemplified rather than being justified by the available evidence.<br/>The book will not only appeal to philosophers and historians, but to students and scholars across the humanities.<br/>
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Subjects
687 Theoretische geschiedenis NUR
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Publisher Amsterdam University Press B.V.
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 168
Duration
Publication date first 2019-01-01
Publication date latest 2019-01-01
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  • ISBN: 9789048537891 (EA)
  • ISBN: 9789462986619 (BC)

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