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    The philosopher must do more than reproduce the results of empirical history — he must illuminate them by bringing knowledge of the Idea to bear upon the data

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    • 1.The results of empirical history serve as data for the philosopher
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    • 2.Knowledge of the Idea (the formal articulation of reason) can be applied to empirical contents
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    • 3.Applying such knowledge elevates empirical contents to the rank of necessary truth
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    • 1.Empirical historical knowledge has its own internal standards of validity that cannot be overridden by a priori conceptual schemes.
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    • 2.Imposing the structure of the Idea onto historical data distorts the contingent particularity that makes historical facts historically significant.
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    • 3.Collingwood argued that historical understanding requires re-enacting past thought on its own terms, not subordinating it to external rational frameworks.
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    • 1.Popper's critique establishes that historicist frameworks claiming to reveal necessary rational structures in history are unfalsifiable and thus epistemically illegitimate.
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    • 2.A claim that elevates contingent empirical contents to 'necessary truth' conflates the logical modality of conceptual necessity with the modal status of historical events.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    To accomplish this task the philosopher must take the results of empirical history as data, but it will not suffice for him merely to reproduce them. He must try to illuminate history by bringing his knowledge of the Idea, the formal articulation of reason, to bear upon it, striving, in a phrase Hegel uses elsewhere, to elevate empirical contents to the rank of necessary truth. (Walsh 1960: 143)
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