Philosophy of History (History of Philosophy): Part II -
A Set of Explorations of this Topic*

0.   Introduction

	The following explorations will attempt to examine our topic, the philosophy of history, in more depth. This will be conducted through four aphoristic monographs followed by one more provisional conclusion. Our four monographic examinations will be on the subtopics of the factological and truth determination; hermeneutics and ideology; stylistics and stylistic appreciation; and, historical forms-of-life within the historical-mode-of-life. (0)

1.   The Factological and the Determination of Truth Value

	All facts are molecular and potentially multi-aspectival in their present-ation/re-presentation/representation. (1)

	Facts are molecular because they can never be atomic! (2)

	Facts are also molecular because they are potentially re(-)presentable from an infinity of possible perspectives (through transformation) and are never completely disassociated from their associated truth values/processes of truth determination. (3)

	Their molecular constitution guarantees that the pre-factual, atomistically factual, etc., can never be arrived at. (4)

	Their molecular constitution guaranteeing that the truth determination of facts can never be absolutely ascertained atomistically, nor treated atomistically, and, therefore, in re-ascertainment can only be modified, re-modified, etc. (5) 

	Thence the overall emergent truth determination of the overall fact under consideration is realized through an historical appreciation of these stages of pre- modifications. (6)

	Despite the impossibility of absolutistic truth determination an adequate relativistic truth determination usually is ascribed to a factual state of affairs given a prior adequacy of truth determinability. (7)

	Hence a truth determination associated with a factual state of affairs usually has three flavours, namely, that treated as actual, non-actual or possible. (8)

	This assumes the articulated factual state of affairs in question is not an impossible representation to begin with (through the impossible presence of fundamental internal inconsistencies in its constitution to begin with). (9)

	Modification implies modal flows between these three non-absolute modalities along with their re-thematized molecular construction, re-construction, etc. (10)

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	However, because we live in the reality of the World-of-Life the considered actuality of other factual components, individually and collectively, has an existential (or ontological) priority (even though an epistemological priority flows from the potential to the actual). (11)

	Still, a set of true molecular truth components does not imply that the factual state of affairs in its simulated integrity is necessarily true overall. (12)

	Hence the importance of its ideological presentation/re-presentation and its ability therein to arrive at the required degree of adequacy in truth determination. (13)

	All factual states of affairs are meta-textually discerned hence ideologically presented/re-presented. (14)

	This discernment is realized through a determination of the molecular constitution of that factual state of affairs in question along with the associated truth determination/s currently arrived in this process of its molecular simulation. (15)

	However, the overall truth determination of a factual state of affairs can never be arrived at internally, through an internal examination, because its situatedness needs to be appreciated from the perspective of its mode of presentation. (16)

	Situatedness is appreciated through a meta-situational level of analysis, i.e., meta-textual synthesis. (17)

	Thence the coherence of that relatively non-inconsistent internal constitution of the factual state of affairs under consideration within an adequately constructed consideration of its mode of presentation (as a form-of-life). (18)

	Thus truth determination is a multi-faceted process invoking transformational isomorphism (between meta-levels of appreciation), internal consistency of constitution (along with the necessary degree of lexical correspondences) and proper truth associations, coherence within its primary mode of presentation and adequate processes of empirical demonstration from the requisite adequacy of textual-depositions-to-hand in that regard able to guarantee the realized facticity of that in question through logical processes of argumentation. (19)

	Thus, overall truth determinacy is dependent upon an appreciation of the truthful-integrity of that under examination. (20)

2.   The Hermeneutical and the Ideological

	Factual states of affairs are appreciated through acts of interpretation hence their hermeneutical appreciation. (21)

	The hermeneutical is approached from the adoption of a certain meta-textual perspective and that is ideological in complexion. (22)

	However, to critically do an historical investigation we need to be able to adequately interpret the requisite textual material to hand, and, maintain the apposite transcendental balance required with respect to the importation of the ideological. (23)

	Through language the world is simulated. (24)

	Simulations of the world mis/re-present it to some degree through representation by virtue of the fact that we cannot transcendentally escape the Life-World. (25)

	Through processes of transcendental determination our represent-ed/misrepresented vision of the world is rectified through ongoing modifications. (26)

	In the exercise of a process of transcendental detachment we must be both psychically absorbed within the world and detached from the same. (27)

	We cannot knowingly be absolutely absorbed in the world nor absolutely detached from that we do not know we are being detached from hence the ever present formation of the transcendental suspension, etc. (28)

	The critical exercise of the historical, etc., being dependent upon the adequately, i.e., properly, appropriately and validly exercised utilization of the overall transcendental suspension. (29)

	Thence our critical historical investigations are conducted both ideologically and trans-ideologically (but never non-ideologically). (30)

	The utilization of the overall transcendental suspension both invokes an ideological perspective or a set of ideological perspectives and the apposite transcendental balance of the same. (31)

	Thence our relative freedom to move through, within and from the ideological dimension. (32)

	Thence the essential formulation and simulation of the ideological dimension wherein we approach our topic, and, the simultaneous counter-essential formulation and simulation of that same ideological dimension in order to critically approach our same historical topic in question through this sense of transcendental balance. (33)

	In this mid-point between the ideological-mode-to-hand and its counter-constitution we conduct an overall transcendental suspension. (34)

	Thence the critical conduct of our investigations. (35)
	Without the adequate utilization of the overall transcendental suspension our hermeneutical investigations become ideological in the connotative sense (36)

	Thence the critical rectification of our research is realized through the adequate exercise of the overall transcendental suspension already in play. (37)

	Thence the ideological dimension is transcendentally overcome but never abolished (because there could be neither orientation without the other). (38)

	The critical course of our historical investigation being conducted pre-critically, critically and post-critically. (39)

	The adequacy of our ongoing overall transcendental suspensions accounting for the critical quality of our historical research both iteratively and re-iteratively. (40)

3.   Stylistics and Stylistic Appreciation

	All historical research is intentionally motivated. (41)

	All motivation is realized through the resolution of a problematic core that instigated that intentional act or set of intentional acts (as an integrated process of intentional activity). (42)

	The manner of that resolution realizes the style of that research. (43)

	Research is re-search through speculative simulation. (44)

	An appreciation of style is realized through a meta-problematization of that area of stylistic concern. (45)

	An alignment of our problematization and meta-problematization allows us to creatively to do both critical history and the critical appreciation of the same. (46)

	Thence our apparent escape from the ideological per se. (47)

	But never our absolute escape from the same since the historical is conducted via our critical reconstruction of the ideological. (48)

	Such a complex process of reconstruction correctly entails a re-construction of the ideological perspective/s of the historical actors in question, and, a re-construction of the ideological perspective/s of the historians conducting that research. (49)

	The transcendental experience of an apparent alignment between the same reinforcing our perception of our being able to do history despite our egological presence merely in the sense of the on-going present. (50)

	That a simulated reconstruction of the apparent problematic being invoked reconstructs the intentional, and v.v. (51)

	Resolution invokes the three moments of the consonant-background, the dissonant-foreground and the relationship of the act of resolution between them. (52)

	As these moments define each other (through mutual exclusion) it follows that any two can be utilized to simulate the third. (53)

	In essence, a hermeneutic circle. (54)

Moreover, an appreciation of style follows the same logic. (55)

	Furthermore, a hermeneutic circle can be invoked between the exercise of a certain style or set of styles and their appreciation, their interrelationship forming the third moment of their interactive resolution, i.e., the nature of their relation. (56)

	Value being determined through an existential excess realized through processes of interrelationship (between sense, meaning and meaningfulness). (57)

	Comparative value being realized through the differential value realized in an integration of their comparative existential values therein realized. (58)

	An appreciation of this integrated-differential realizing the existential meaningfulness of the value of our historical project/s under consideration. (59)

	Thence the formation of historical style and our appreciation of the same. (60)

4.   Historical Forms-of-Life within the Historical-Mode-of-Life

	History is the distance between acters and actors. (61)

	Since we speculatively re-simulate and re-enact the historical, thence the historical is appreciated through this existential difference between acters and actors (as historians) re-simulating the former. (62)

	Iterated patterns of phenomenological formation through re-iteration becoming historical in tenor. (63)

	Those patterns can be treated as historical-forms-of-life (within the overall, open-ended historical mode-of-life). (64)

	A pattern is a pattern through re-iteration. (65)

	Their summation constituting the historical openness of the historical mode in its transcendental ideality, their simulated re-presentation representing their empirical reality, albeit in its transcendental ideality. (66)

	The complex transformational flows between facts, their truth determinations, hermeneutical practices, ideological positioning/s and transcendental detachment, and consequent modifications therein and thereafter, allowing us to establish the nature of the relationships between historical-forms-of-life in their respective histories within the historical-mode-of-life. (67)

	In effect, attempting to re-simulate existential descriptions of existential descriptors in their essential ideality through a process of refined re-simulation. (68)

	Ideological inputs creating the historical perspectives in which these relevant essentials are to be nominated and thereafter denominated (through simulation/re-simulation). (69)

Thence our simulated/re-simulated ‘perception’ of the historical. (70)

5.   Conclusion

	The reconstruction of the historical is speculative. (71)

	In our picturing of the world, the world can be neither absolutely pictured nor absolutely non-pictured. (72)

	Because the pre-factual is already there-for-us in meta-textual archives it follows that the world is ‘our’ world, indeed, one-World-of-Life for-us. (73)

	Thence the transcendental inter-subjectivity of historical forms-of-life within the historical mode. (74)

	Those forms-of-life being forms-of-life for us through transcendental inter-subjectivity. (75)

	The factological usually being associated with a determined truth value. (76)

	The simulated/re-simulated enactment and dissemination of truth values establishing the simulation of relatively stable historical texts. (77)

	Their determination of those texts being ideological in stance. (78)

	However, through ongoing transcendental detachment of the overall transcendental suspension the merely ideological is overcome without abolishment. (79)

	Thence the historical phenomenon of the apparent simulation/re-simulation of the effectively historical through a speculative transcendence of its traces (and their re-simulation). (80)

							    Noël Tointon, Sydney, 12.6.07.