When1: 1936
When2: 1940
Who: Robin G. Collingwood [Collingwood, Robin G.]
What: historian
Where: England
works\ Idea of History [1936]; Principles of Art [1938]; Essay on Metaphysics [1940]
Detail: He lived 1889 to 1943, was positivist, and wrote about Roman Britain.
Epistemology
Philosophy, history, and all thinking depend on fundamental assumptions {absolute presupposition}, which form perspective. Absolute presuppositions are neither true nor false. People need to imagine previous-epoch thoughts and actions to understand their practical problems. The idea of agency is basis of the idea of causality.
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