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This interview with fukuyama gives a good sample of fukuyama's definition of history.

Yes it does, thank you Patrick. And he sounds far ...

By claiming that we've reached the end of history, Fukuyama doesn't mean no new events will occur to be history, but the political mode is currently at its more efficient point that no new progression ...

Ahhh this reading...... my definition of Science is reformatted into "the systematic study of universe through observation and experimentation in attempt to comprehend its framework in ways appli ...

Similar to Ben's point, I think the way of doing science had gone into a loop during this period: as the subject gets abstract and cannot be tested directly, scientists had to design experiments based ...

ahhhhhhhhh sorry about the longness..... I had no idea it's gotten so long.... I underlined the main points and hope that helps....

Since people have already analysed their contributions in specific terms, I guest I'll add onto these through a broader view.
I would summarize that “The search for an answer to the question “what i ...

Although there is a voice in my mind muttering "this can't be history", I found myself reluctantly admitting Contat's account as history because it seems to fit the criteria of my definition ...

I think the methodology we use to study science and history started to get intertwined. The example would be Darwin used history of geology to propose the theory of evolution and Marx took a rather sc ...

In response to Yiwei, I'd say History is a subdivision to Social Science. In my understanding History is the study of humanities using scientific methods.

In response to the other question about & ...

PART II

Marx believed that human are prevented by the economic and material conditions to achieving freedom / the unified spirit of 'Mind' in Hegel's words. That is to say we are all separated by ...

PART I DARWIN

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection suggests that species were not independently created but instead descended from primitive form. Species are modified into more develo ...

ok, this is my first attempt.

Kant
-there are necessary relation/inherent a priori knowledge as a basic framework in nature and in our thought, that things must conform to
-some rational, a pri ...

Although the concept of a priori almost implies that it comes before experience and lays in our consciousness as a bass of knowledge, I think the apriori knowledge itself comes before experience. I pr ...

I'm still entangled..... so I'll reply to Mingwei's question and come back later.

Question: Hegel believed that “every process in life calls out its contradictory process – and life takes its impo ...

And do you think seeing something can prove its existence?

This question reminds me of Plato's cave story, in which he pictured how prisoners being chained in a cave were disguised into believing ...