Fiction vs History?

[Ghetta Life]

>From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>
>At 5:45 PM -0700 10/22/04, aleach67 at mac.com wrote:
> >>Historians themselves -- good ones -- since the mid-nineteenth century 
>have recognised that the line between history and fiction is blurred.
>
>Just because the line between black and white is blurred by a whole lot of 
>grey does not mean there is no black or white.  Eliminating defined 
>distinctions is regressing to pre-cognition not moving toward 
>metacognition.

This really is the whole point of this discussion.  This is why calling 
history nothing more than fiction is pernicious.

Ghetta

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