Historical Necessity and Contingency

Yemima Ben-Menahem*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
Pages120-130
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9781405149082
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Mar 2009

Keywords

  • Cleopatra's nose and other category mistakes
  • Emplotment
  • Historical necessity and contingency
  • Necessity (contingency) and description
  • Necessity and contingency as degrees of stability
  • Prophets of contingency

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