The concept of "fact" took shape, I have suggested, in the legal arena and was then carried into other intellectual endeavors until it became part and parcel of the generally held habits of thought of late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century English culture.
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Curiosities and wonders, England, Facts (Philosophy), Great Britain, Historiography, History, Intellectual life, Knowledge, Theory of, Law and fact, Physical sciences, Theory of Knowledge, Evidence (law), great britain, Science, history, Science, philosophy, Great britain, intellectual lifePlaces
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"The concept of "fact" took shape, I have suggested, in the legal arena and was then carried into other intellectual endeavors until it became part and parcel of the generally held habits of thought of late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century English culture."
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