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From: Bob <suannschafer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:54:46 -0600
But, can't we make the statement that (nearly) everything is derived
from texts or other linguistic media?
>Well, I think he meant this statement literally, not metaphorically.
>We derive history from texts or other linguistic mediums.
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>On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Bob wrote:
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> > >Historians, as Gadamer puts it, immerse themselves in the
> > >stream of history - history is like one extremely large text,
> > >and its events and epochs constitute chapters or books.
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> > And yet, "history" can hardly be reduced to a diachronic/linear
> > model. While indeed it unfolds in time, it does not appear to me to
> > be a text, which to me implies being read diachronically (granted,
> > you may skip around, check the index, check the footnotes), but the
> > experience to me inferred by "reading" is one of diachronicity.
> > Rather I find history to be more synchronous, hence more like a
> > matrix.
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> >