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The Relativity of All Perspectives
Is it applicable to other academic pursuits this idea that we are all newton on the beach with pebbles looking out over the vastness of the sea or is it something that is really applicable to science and the study of science only could a historian think exactly the same way. I think they do in fact they do better than scientists, he says. Historians are deeply aware of the difficulty of having history formulated in terms of an objectic certain secure point of view. We know that our knowledge is within a certain perspective within a certain culture so it's limited but not equal according to him.