Philosophy
Quote
“The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless.”
- E. H. Carr
- 1961
Philosophy of History
Carr’s 1961 quote reminds us that facts do not become history by themselves. History emerges when evidence is selected, organized, interpreted, and placed into a meaningful story.
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Philosophy
Story
The Idea of History
1946
Published posthumously.
Philosophy of History
Collingwood helped show that history is not just collecting facts. It is the disciplined reconstruction of past human thought and action from surviving evidence.
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TST COLUMN
03 May 2026
Philosophy
Article
TST Philosophy of History: Empirical Narrative Realism
Idea of Ideas
Historical tales are empirical ideas. We believe these evidence-based reconstructions of real past events with varying degrees of confidence. We can prove or disprove their related empirical implications.
Tue 3 Mar 2026
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TST COLUMN
20 Jun 2021
Debut
Science
Story
Homo Sapiens: Advanced Transcendental Intelligence
315,000 BCE
New Species: Homo Sapiens
Sun 20 Jun 2021
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TST COLUMN
28 Mar 2024
Debut
Science
Story
Presentient Animals Emerge: The Ediacaran Prelude
635 to 590 Million Years Ago
Proto-brain; Pre-brain memory; Presentient.
Evolution
By the late Ediacaran, the animal world was already moving toward proto-nervous systems and the long road to brains.
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TST COLUMN
02 Apr 2024
Debut
Science
Story
Complex Sentience Settles: Eomaia scansoria
circa 125 Million BCE
Complex Brains; Long-Term Memory; Complex Sentience; Likely Proto Self-aware.
The rise of Eomaia scansoria, an early placental mammal, marks a definitive leap towards “Complex Sentience” in the evolutionary saga leading to humans. It’s also plausible that it possessed a foundational level of self-awareness, or what can be termed as Proto Self-awareness. A rudimentary sense of self.
Tue 2 Apr 2024
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TST COLUMN
31 Mar 2024
Debut
Science
Story
Early Complex Sentience Emerges: Dimetrodon
295 Million BCE
Complex Brains; Long-Term Memory; Early Complex Sentience.
Evolution
By about 280 million years ago, Dimetrodon was one of the best-known predators of the Early Permian. It stalked rivers and floodplains alongside caseid synapsids, large amphibians like Eryops, and a landscape of Calamites, Sigillaria, ferns, and early seed plants.
Sun 31 Mar 2024
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TST COLUMN
02 Apr 2024
Debut
Science
Story
Early Self-Awareness: Miacis
50 Million BCE
Territory memory, where things are, hippocampus development
Emerging in the lush forests of the Eocene, Miacis signifies a pivotal moment in the evolution of cognitive abilities among mammals. As a basal member of the Carnivora, this small, tree-dwelling creature exhibited behaviors and social dynamics suggesting the early stages of self-awareness.
Tue 2 Apr 2024
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