Item Detail
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3556
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2
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8
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English
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Objectivity and History
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 1986
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19
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87-97
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This article addresses the possibility or impossibility of objectivity in history. The author states, "I would like to argue against this relativism, this subjectivity, this lack of objectivity, this claim that there is no truth -- that knowledge can be determined only within the context of the sociology of knowledge. While I do not intend in this essay to argue against relativism in ethics, I do hope to argue against the lack of objectivity in history, the lack of truth in history, and the lack of rationality in history and science."