Philosophy of History (History of Philosophy): Part VI -
A Brief Overview of How this Topic Has Been Approached*

0.   Introduction

	Summary headings, etc., to be utilized as a map for approaching the philosophical nature of our topic, namely, research dealing with the re-simulation of retrospective phenomena. (0)

1.   Reflections

	This topic can be divided into three subdivisions, namely, a factology, a narrative hermeneutics and a meta-historical appreciation or stylistics. (1)

Each of these subdivisions can then be treated from a theoretical, practical and critical perspective. (2) 

In recognition that these analytical divisions are non-absolute a tenth synthetical classification of ‘doing history’ completes this scheme and was briefly examined under the headings of events, textual depositions, historical genres, historians, historical-oriented textual depositions and audience oriented processes of reception). (3)

All of the above, as an industry, being seen to fall within the historical mode-of-life (the appearance of all parties within the same being associated as interrelated forms-of-life in the World-of-Life/Life-World). (4)

Facts can only be modified and evaluated for relevancy in the narrative or set/s of narratives under examination. (5)

In historical disputation different procedures apply to facts, narratives, and their appreciation, and, should not be confuse; contestation is usually a hermeneutic and/or stylistic affair (as facts are usually obtained from non-controversial cultural inventories). (6)

	Hermeneutic and/or stylistic considerations addressing the internal propriety and external appropriateness of factual placements, etc. (7)

The simulated and/or re-simulated is/are never directly represented; implying that history can only be told and shown, never seen thence the defective nature of historical representation (versus historical re-presentation). (8)

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	Historical appreciation is an appreciation of the adopted and adapted style of the narrative genre being exercised and is best exercised in a competitive and evolutional manner. (9)

Factual content and narrative content can be neither absolutely harmonized nor absolutely non-harmonized although historical research emphasizes progressive harmonization. (10)

Doing ‘history’ is essentially re-simulating the past and/or the present and/or the future and, therefore, essentially is speculative. (11)

Doing history necessitates the existence of the following factors: intentionally experienced events, either directly or indirectly accessed; the presence or reported inventory of intentionally directed intentional traces in the form of texts (either non-classical and/or classical in orientation); genres of historical activity; textually disseminated forms of historical narrative; historians (whether professional or lay) and the reception of the same in the form of historical representations or simulations (as re-simulated textually in the form of a classical text or set of classical texts). (12)

All histories, moreover, are commensurable to some degree or other by virtue of this transcendental guarantee of this one-World-of-Life, although our openness to this degree of isomorphic coincidence may make little difference in the additional value brought to our current historical enterprise! (13)

Doing history iteratively modifies the genres adopted and adapted for this task thence the philosophy of history is also a history of philosophy. (14)

2.   Explorations

Facts are molecular because they can never be atomic and this molecular constitution guarantees that the pre-factual, atomistically factual, etc., can never be arrived at. (15)

	Hence a truth determination associated with a factual state of affairs usually has three flavours, namely, that treated as actual, non-actual or possible (assuming a non-impossible presuppositional basis). (16)

	Modification implies modal flows between these three non-absolute modalities along with their re-thematized molecular construction, re-construction, etc. (17)

	All factual states of affairs are meta-textually discerned hence ideologically presented/re-presented. (18)

	Overall truth determination of a factual state of affairs can never be arrived at through an internal examination because its situatedness needs to be appreciated from the perspective of its mode/s of presentation. (19)
	Situatedness is appreciated through a meta-situational level of analysis, i.e., meta-textual synthesis. (20)

That 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. (21)

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

	That to critically undertake 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 the mid-point between the ideological-mode-to-hand and its counter-constitution we conduct an overall transcendental suspension thence the critical conduct of our investigations. (24)

All historical research is intentionally motivated, all such motivation is realized through the resolution of a problematic core that instigated that intentional act/s which realizes the style of that research through speculative re/simulation. (25)

Value being determined through an existential excess realized through processes of interrelationship, to be evaluated comparatively, therein realizing the existential meaningfulness of those historical projects. (26)

History is the distance between acters and actors. (27) 

Iterated patterns of phenomenological formation becoming historical in orientation. (28)

	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. (29)

	In effect, attempting to re-simulate existential descriptions of existential descriptors in their essential ideality through a process of refined re-simulation. (30)

In our picturing of the world, the world can be neither absolutely pictured nor absolutely non-pictured. (31)

	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). (32)

3.   The Nature of Truth Determination

	Affective emotions motivate truth determination. (33)

	But objectivity demands their transcendental suspension, etc. (34)
	
Cognitively, truth determination is an ordered affair despite orders being entered and thematized through processes of trans-cognitive judgment. (35)

Each order is backgrounded by its own sense of a field and those orders before and after it (from a perspective of epistemological complexity). (36)

These orders being the essential[ly] pre-essential; aesthetical[-]essential; de-ontological ideological; pragmatical perceptual; hermeneutical potentialization; and, the evidential actualization. (37)

An overall transcendental suspension re-determining our truth determination of that state of affairs under re-examination. (38)

Our operating within the World-of-Life implies that all truth determination is a process of truth re-determination within the overall hermeneutic circle of its ideological situatedness. (39)

	Therein and thereafter examining consequential virtual and/or non-virtual flows through simulation/re-simulation. (40)

	Moreover, from our cultural archives most processes of truth determination are (directly) arrived at incrementally and micro-environmentally. (41)

Thence the non-apparent complexity and apparent simplicity of truth determination. (42)

4.   On the Need to Navigate Between the Extremes

	Extreme positions are either impossible polarities (to arrive at) or positions that barely represent phenomenal-phenomenological reality thence historical re-presentation is better arrived at through acts of non-extreme positioning. (43)

	Moreover, because there can only be ‘one’ world, namely, the Life-World, through intentionally constituted relationships we are given direct access to the phenomenal nature of that under the focus of our examinations in accordance with the natures of its objectivity and the natures of our subjectivity in the light and perspective of that intentionally constituted relationship between these polarities. (44)

	All relationships, in their intentional constitution, are re/constituted in and through the simulations/re-simulations of the hermeneutic circle. (45)

	The world is simulated as the world-of-simulation; ‘reality’ being determined through modal richness in two senses, etc., namely, via the richness of modes actively engaged, and, the richness of intentional content exercised therein. (46)

	Moreover, the comparative existential richness of value realized is also another hermeneutic test on the grounds that in experience a greater value is re-presented/represented when we are more aligned with the nature of that phenomenon in phenomenological consciousness (and v.v). (47)

	Polarities in their ideality cannot be realized whilst extreme acts of positioning de-center our passage through this World-of-Life. (48)

	That a greater degree of existential value is realized through re-alignment. (49)

	Re-alignment is realized through the adequate utilization of the overall transcendental suspension, etc., thence our need to navigate between the extremes! (50)

5.   Historical Research

	Intentional acts are sequenced. (51)

	A sequence is arrived at through a dialectical mix of continuity and discontinuity; both within the sequence and outside the sequence. (52)

	Intent is realized through the ongoing resolution of dissonance within and between sequences. (53)

	Within the sequence it realizes its overall tenor through dealing with the continuity of that project. (54)

	Outside the immediate sequence under review intent is continued and realized through the re-iteration of a similar project. (55) 

	The tension in a project is between its potentialization and actualization, and, this type of tension is experienced as dissonance within the relevant field or fields of concern. (56)

	Thus research (through the re-simulation of simulations) is non-local and non-real (even if the relational act of research itself be relatively local and real). (57) 
	Intentional acts in their constitution are traced out through parallel patterns of deposition upon the relational ‘fabric’ of the world. (58)

	Intentional acts of re-constitution are re-realized through tracing their apparent genesis of constitution. (59)

	Research is a form of intentional re-constitution normally exercised in a controlled fashion. (60)

	Controlled research is realized through adopting and adapting meta-textual genre/s of research. (61)

	 Re-constitution of intent can never be re-iterated absolutely. (62)

	Equally, its recognition can never be absolutely non-re-iterated. (63)

	Iteration/re-iteration, therefore, must entail some degree of mis-sequencing, de-sequencing, etc., and, contra-sequencing, etc. (64)

	By avoiding mis-sequencing when the wrong sequential act-component is conducted; e.g., when a cup is dropped on to a saucer and one or both items are damaged, or, the tag of the tea-bag is dipped in the cup and not the tea-bag itself . (65)

	By avoiding de-sequencing when a certain sequential act-component is wrongly omitted in a certain sequence or wrongly committed through its insertion at a wrong point in that sequence under examination; e.g., when a ‘cup of tea’ is presented when having forgotten to add the tea-bag, or, when water is poured into the saucer because the tea-cup has not yet been placed upon the saucer. (66)

Or, when genre expectations are not correctly observed through the mis-application of some other genre, hence contra-sequencing, etc., e.g., when a political narrative is being conducted/mis-conducted through the lens of a certain conspiracy that has no adequate evidential-foundations used in that particular mis-narration. (67)

	That, effectively, all sequentialization is controlled meta-textually through the adoption and adaptation of genre-expectations. (68)

In this one-World-of-Life concordance is realized through the ongoing rectification of the overall transcendental suspension! (69)

	Thence our critical path through the world through these ongoing incremental modifications as re-alignments, redefining the existential sense of our historical situatedness (as that between a philosophy of history and a history of philosophy). (70)

							     Noël Tointon, Sydney, 5.7.07.