Practice question · Multiple choice
"There is nothing outside the text" is the phrase most often used to dismiss the linguistic turn. Why do historians who take the turn seriously reject that reading of it?
Hints
- Ask what "outside the text" is being contrasted with.
- A claim about ACCESS is not a claim about EXISTENCE.
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B. Because the claim is about mediation, not about existence
Why
The slogan is about mediation. Read as ontology it is absurd and easy to dismiss; read as epistemology it is the reason source criticism matters.
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