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historicism  

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  • Historicism is a theory of discerning the past truth from the study of history with man at the pivot. It was applied by 18th-century philosophers of Enlightenment and gained momentum since then, with the insistence that history is knowledge. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Historicism]

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