The Exemplifying Past

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The Exemplifying Past is written by Chiel Akker and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040797423 (ISBN 10) and 9781040797426 (ISBN 13).

This book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time. The point of departure is the distinction between events under the description of past witnesses and their contemporaries and events under the description of historians. Its main claim is that a thesis on the past is exemplified rather than being justified by the available evidence. Such thesis, the book argues, retroactively becomes concrete in the past under consideration. This book will not only appeal to philosophers and historians, but to students and scholars across the humanities.