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As works of imagination, the historian's work and the novelist's do not differ. Where they do differ is that the historian's picture is meant to be true. The novelist has a single task only: to construct a coherent picture, one that makes sense.
If we put this question to the ordinary historian, he will answer it in the negative. According to him, all history properly so called is the history of human affairs.
Collingwood, in this earlier book, conceives of knowledge as divided into art, religion, science, history, and philosophy, and he discusses them in that order. But the discussion is not merely seriatim.
The nature of a fact is a sufficient guide, according to Collingwood, in determining the relation between history and the past: "the historian's business is with fact; and there are not...
Mar 4, 1999 · This chapter examines a Collingwoodian doctrine which has often been seen as closely related to that of re-enactment: the claim that historical inquiry requires an exercise of the historian's imagination.
In Collingwood’s question-answer logic, questions possess a historical nature. The posing of any question should be contextualized within the specific historical era, cultural customs, and technological developments of that time.
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Jan 11, 2006 · The logical inquiry into the connections holding between presuppositions, questions and answers is the true task of conceptual analysis in metaphysics, a task that must replace metaphysics traditionally understood as the study of pure being.
