Historical truth

Foundations of Science 1 (3):407-416 (1995)
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The author, dismissing the feasibility of attaining the real facts of history, proposes to define historical truth as the set of all possible worlds that agree with all the sources available to the historian. He remarks that this conception is very close to that necessairly assumed today by cosmologists, when describing the evolution of the phisical universe.

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10.1007/bf00145403

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