18 Historical Method: Hypothesis and Verification
Taken from THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD
author: N T Wright
contributor: SPCK - N T Wright
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Historical Method: Hypothesis and Verification
(i) Introduction
There is an important sense in which historical method is just like all other methods of enquiry. It proceeds by means of ‘hypotheses’, which stand in need of ‘verification’. As we saw earlier, a better way of putting this (avoiding certain epistemological pitfalls) is to say that human life is lived by means of implicit and explicit stories…
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