Empirical Fact, Fact from the Past and Historical Fact

DOI

10.2991/cesses-19.2019.283How to use a DOI?

Keywords

empirical fact; fact from the past; historical fact; history; historiography; narrative; interpretation; conceptualization of the past

Abstract

Scientific facts are theoretical constructors, describing and explaining a phenomena, given to researcher as a sensitive reality, by fundamental laws. Facts from the past unlike a scientific facts, describe not-being which is transcendental, incognizable and reproduced only abstractedly. Facts from the past describe the events that are unique and unrepeatable and which cannot be proved by experiments. That's why the methods of historical facts constructing are significant different from the methods of describing and explaining empirical facts of reality. They are based on imagination and life experience, and are not determined by the object of cognition, but by the worldview of the historian.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Aleksandr Nesterenko
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TI  - Empirical Fact, Fact from the Past and Historical Fact
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2019)
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