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The Objectivity of Knowing History

Ning Li

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Under the condition that historians study history,can its objectivity be kept?All the concepts and categories,which are the results of a particular history,are influenced by the subjective factors.Thus,these subjective factors and the subjective view of historians determine the fact that we connot achieve the objectivity of knowing history.But the historical events which are studied by historians can keep objectivity.The objectivity of knowing history relies on the grandual intersification of historians subjective awareness.

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Under the condition that historians study history,can its objectivity be kept?All the concepts and categories,which are the results of a particular history,are influenced by the subjective factors.Thus,these subjective factors and the subjective view of historians determine the fact that we connot achieve the objectivity of knowing history.But the historical events which are studied by historians can keep objectivity.The objectivity of knowing history relies on the grandual intersification of historians subjective awareness.

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Under the condition that historians study history,can its objectivity be kept?All the concepts and categories,which are the results of a particular history,are influenced by the subjective factors.Thus,these subjective factors and the subjective view of historians determine the fact that we connot achieve the objectivity of knowing history.But the historical events which are studied by historians can keep objectivity.The objectivity of knowing history relies on the grandual intersification of historians subjective awareness.

Key concepts: Objectivity (philosophy), Epistemology, Psychology, Aesthetics, Philosophy

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