HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Historical Realism, Methodology, Thomas Kuhn
12 Nov 2020
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Object: known object of knowledge, the objective given reality. Subject: knower (us, the person) subject of knowledge, researching according to certain methodological rules. It"s always about somebody who wants to know something and a reality. The discussion always about the person and the thing you want to know. Donnelly and norton chapter 5: d&n argue that supporting one"s historical narrative with true" sources is only one of the historian"s tasks: convincing the reader of one"s perspective is as least an important. Professional historians, or working historians sometimes don"t even know the right answer on a question. Spalding and parker offer some sensible advice on this issue: ( ) there are right ways to answer historical questions rather than right answers as such . So you could answer a historical question in many ways, but none of these answers is the perfect one. Most of the time students will answer their research question with secondary sources.
