Practice question · True or false
A historian can select which facts to include without any criterion of selection.
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- Selecting requires a criterion, and a criterion comes from somewhere.
- The questions asked are shaped by the historian's own moment.
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False
Why
Selection requires a criterion; a criterion comes from questions; questions come from the historian’s present. There is no view from nowhere. Honesty means making the criteria explicit enough to be argued with, not pretending they are absent.
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