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Roberts - Geoffrey Elton and the Philosophy of History (2120 words) |
 | Elton claimed that what distinguished history from other approaches to the study of human affairs was the role of evidence in generating and limiting, as well as validating, the statements and conclusions of historians. |
| Elton called his approach to evidence the `empirical or thesis-free' method, meaning that historians must be committed to allowing interpretations of the past to emerge from the evidence. |
| Elton, as he made plain, offered to historians and students not a treatise but a manifesto--a statement of faith in the founding assumptions of their craft and a guide to the differences separating them from colleagues in the social sciences. |
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