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Herodotus starts his work by saying he has two purposes. The first is to preserve the memory of Greeks and barbarians in their struggles; and the second, “In particular, beyond everything else, to give the cause of their fighting one another.” While I share this viewpoint, there are grave difficulties with such a causal understanding of history.
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Cohen, R.S. (1970). Causation in History. In: Yourgrau, W., Breck, A.D. (eds) Physics, Logic, and History. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1749-4_14
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