He became a Franciscan friar and historically — this is a historical figure — historically he is called in by the Pope Boniface VIII, by now you know him.
The Guardian's obituaries page, according to its editor, is no longer able to fit in all the public figures who would have historically figured on the page because of the rise in high-profile deaths.
Appeals to expertise and knowledge have historically figured prominently in justifications of political exclusion and hierarchy, but epistemic democrats put them to use in defending participatory forms of democratic politics.
How did that come to be? DAVID REMNICK: Linda, I should say first that, historically, figures and movements and events may resemble each other, and we can draw comparisons, but, at the same time, nothing absolutely equals anything else.
Historically, figures such as Aquinas (ST Ia, 15; SCG I 51 54), Anselm, and most-famously, Leibniz (e.g. Monadology 43 45)[3] claimed that abstract objects depend on God's cognitive activity (more particularly are God's thoughts or exist "in God's mind").[4] These divine thoughts aren't subject to God's will, nor is God able to think other than he does with respect to them.
Numerous variants of the theory have been presented: historically, figures including Saint Augustine, Duns Scotus, and Thomas Aquinas have presented various versions of divine command theory; more recently, Robert Merrihew Adams has proposed a "modified divine command theory" based on the omnibenevolence of God in which morality is linked to human conceptions of right and wrong.
The unemployment rate currently sits at 4.1percentt, a historically low figure.
Kabir, a historically shadowy figure, is made more shadowy still by the hagiographies and unreliable narratives that surround his life.
Neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant and central Harlem are gentrifying, attracting people with higher incomes who increase the historically low figure for median household income in these areas.
It's an example, par excellence, of television's transformation of a historically significant figure, a famous person in the old sense of fame, into a modern celebrity.
