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People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.
-Errol Morris
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Errol Morris
People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.
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The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. there is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. but often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. so either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.
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There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. it is basically saying the same thing in a different way. simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.
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It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. no knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.
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I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
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