man is the measure chapter 15

1. Abel believes that history is being constantly rewritten because it has always and will always

2. the factors that influence the process by which facts are chosen are

• personal interest: what the writer focuses on and disregards
• change in coneptual apparatus: after thoughts for events such as learning what Marx thought of the american civil war.
• change in basic historical segments:
• personal interest in history changes:
• the audience that it is being written for.

3. the baconian fallacy is that all historians do is amass a story from the facts. this fallacy would be in agreement with the positivists who believe that history is a science. however, Carr would most likely disagree with this statement because he believes that history is not just a mass of facts, but is biased to fit the writer.

4. Abel states that history differs from geology because the historian attributes meaning to the facts and data.

5.i would agree with this statement over the subject of history. for example, during our "checks" lab, my group had inferred a story through a limited amount of facts, even though those facts might not have been related at all.

6. i do not know how future historians will describe events happening today because the writing of history is dependent on the historian. i will never know how the future will view our time because i can never know what the majority belief is at that time.

7. historical pluralism denies the belief that every event is somehow related to every other historical event.

8. it really doesn't matter if there was ever a man who was named Trotsky, as long as historians recognize that there was a man who had done what he did.

9. A historian is like a physicist because neither person truly knows all there is to know about one specific topic, or everything for that matter.

10. the five frameworks of history:

• all history is cyclical: there have always been, and will always be dictators that rise in times of Crisis such as Hitler, Julius Caesar, and Stalin
• history is functional in that it certain causes will always have the same effects: racial tensions will always lead to segregation
• progress is only a new concept in the study of history: the term "golden age" came about after it had already passed
• according to the Christian view, history is just sin and redemption.
• society can be viewed as a living organism: civilization can be seen to grow from infancy to dying in senility such as the USSR that rose in the 1910's and died in 1991