Culture of Fact
Culture of Fact Barbara J. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of disciplines in early modern England, examining how the emerging culture of fact shaped the…
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Culture of Fact
Barbara J. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of disciplines in early modern England, examining how the emerging culture of fact shaped the epistemological assumptions of each intellectual enterprise.Drawing on an astonishing breadth of research, Shapiro probes the fact's changing identity from an alleged human action to a proven natural or human happening. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the fact, a modern concept that, she convincingly demonstrates, originated not in natural science but in legal discourse.
The concept widened to cover natural as well as human events as a result of developments in news reportage and travel writing. The crucial first step in this transition occurred in the sixteenth century when English common law established a definition of fact which relied on eyewitnesses and testimony. Only then, Shapiro discovers, did
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