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Sorry, how does history change? I think perhaps the narrative, the evidence on-hand, primary sources, etc. could all be considered and as a body of historical
by kfrzcode 3y ago
Sorry, how does history change?
I think perhaps the narrative, the evidence on-hand, primary sources, etc. could all be considered and as a body of historical evidence we could say the understanding from our perspective continues to evolve; but there's no world in which the history changes. Events, causality, arrow of time, etc.
- daemoens 3y agoI think you are being too pedantic about the word “change”. No one assumed he meant someone went back with a time machine and literally changed history.
- xvilka 3y agoWe would never know if that happens though.
- simple-thoughts 3y agoHistory is not the past - it’s the study of documents from the past. So history changes for two main reasons (1) the uncovering of documents that were not previously available for study and (2) new, more convincing synthesis of the existing body of documents.
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