This
essay is about the persistent and obdurate misunderstanding of two
things that history cannot do without: the concept of truth and the kind
of inferential exposition or argument that we call narrative. It is as
if people want to make life interesting, or they want to sound original,
so they misconstrue truth and narrative. Being wrong is not original,
and in the process of getting things wrong they make them dull and
predictable. They also forget just how much philosophers have been able
to say about truth - this essay is a reminder - and just how important
truth is to logic, and logic is to narrative.
Essay 5. Truth and Historical Narrative
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