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    A criticism of certain aspects of R.G. Collingwood's theory of history
    Lloyd Thomas, David ( 1957)
    The thesis is divided Into six Parts. In Part A I will consider philosophic objections to R.G. Collingwood's Theory of History as expounded in the Introduction and Epilegomena to his book "The Idea of History", while in Part B I will turn to those philosophic criticisms of the Theory which have recently been discussed in an article by Alan Donagan. In Part C I will consider objections which might he described as 'difficulties likely to arise when the Theory is put into practice'. In Part D the discussion is centred on certain views of Hempel for the purpose of throwing further light on the place of generalisations in history, a subject which will have been raised from time to time in the first three Parts. Part E is an attempt to discover the best approach to problems in the theory of history, which is followed in Part F by a sample analysis of some problems raised by Collingwood and an attempt to slow why he made his mistakes. The problems which I will discuss are connected in such a variety of ways that it has not been easy to decide in what order the discussion should follow. From time to time a certain topic will be raised, pursued for several pages and then dropped, only to be taken up again later. I hope that 'signpost' remarks from time to time will make clear the direction in which the argument is going, and help to pull together these strands.
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