HIST 1059 Lecture : Islam Discussion 1 Essay Revised.docx
22 Jan 2014
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The notion that objective truths exist in history is completely false. Carr"s the historian and his facts, it is impossible for historical records to be impartial. Historians search for facts and after listing them, begin to formulate their reasoning on the topic, which will always involve their own point of view. The result is numerous interpretations of the same event. Although facts are available to the historian through documents, letters, and inscriptions, another historian who formulated his reasoning based on another set of recordings wrote these records. Therefore, history is a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past. The interaction between the historian and his facts is based primarily on the interpretation of the facts. Carr interestingly incorporates why every event in the past is not considered historical facts. He claims that a fact is considered one if a historian decides to implement it into his argument.
