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Taka Posted 22 years ago
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With the historian the case is different. HIs facts belong to the past, and the past is gone forever. We cannot reconstruct it; we cannot waken it to a new life in a mere physical, objective sense. All we can do is to "remember" it--give it a new existence .
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What exactly does "a new existence" mean here? Why does it exist though we cannot reconstruct it?
With the historian the case is different. HIs facts belong to the past, and the past is gone forever. We cannot reconstruct it; we cannot waken it to a new life in a mere physical, objective sense. All we can do is to "remember" it--give it a new existence .
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What exactly does "a new existence" mean here? Why does it exist though we cannot reconstruct it?
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As he says, the memory of something is a new existence for it-- it is not the same as the original. It is a new type of existence for the past historical fact, which itself cannot be experienced again.
- As he says, the memory of something is a new existence for it-- it is not the same as the original.
- It is a new type of existence for the past historical fact, which itself cannot be experienced again.
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As he says, the memory of something is a new existence for it-- it is not the same as the original. It is a new type of existence for the past historical fact, which itself cannot be experienced again.
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