Our Knowledge of the Past¶
Tucker, A. (2004). Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography. Cambridge University Press.
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Primes¶
- Rashomon Effect
- In historiography, contemporary chronicles of the same event by participants on different sides remain internally coherent and each consistent with surviving evidence, their disagreement irreducible without auxiliary records.
This sourceAnalyzes the underdetermination of historiographic hypotheses by the evidence: where the surviving evidence confers equal probability on several competing internally coherent accounts, no internal criterion selects among them.
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Tucker's abstract shows the book analyzes underdetermination in historiography, supporting the general frame but not the specific chronicle example or the necessity of auxiliary records.
“covers such topics as evidence, theory, methodology, explanation, determination and underdetermination, coincidence, contingency and counterfactuals in historiography.”
- In historiography, contemporary chronicles of the same event by participants on different sides remain internally coherent and each consistent with surviving evidence, their disagreement irreducible without auxiliary records.
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