QUESTION TEXT: Historian: The central claim of the “end-of-history”…
QUESTION TYPE: Most Strongly Supported
FACTS:
- Some people say history is at an end.
- But, we can’t stand outside of all history to judge whether it is at an end.
ANALYSIS: History might be at an end. But we’ll never know, since we can’t stand outside history to judge.
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- CORRECT. This seems likely. To know whether the theory is true, we would have to stand outside of history and judge whether history had ended.
- Who knows? Maybe history really does have an end, and we’ve reached it. The theory could be true, even if we can’t judge it.
- Actually, the historian implies that we wouldn’t know we’ve reached the end, because we can’t stand outside of history to judge.
- This is tempting, but not true. The theory could be true. It’s just impossible for us to know whether it is true.
- The historian never said what history is.
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