The word “history” is compounded of three distinct meanings; one,
the course of human events, History itself, knowledge of which is only
accessible through two; the study of those events by historians using documents
and three, the combination of these two; that is, the human process of
learning, or failing to learn from, History as mediated through that knowledge.
These meanings, although dialectically intertwined, are distinct, and much
confusion may be avoided if their distinctions are attended to.
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