Collingwood's account of re-enactment is developed in answer to the question "what does it mean to understand historically?" Historical understanding differs from explanation in natural science because historians do not formulate empirical hypotheses but think through the actions of historical agents in order to make them intelligible.
Now the interest in organs takes other forms, in particular the specialized work by builders, players and even musicologists aiming to convey what some of them like to call a "historically informed understanding" of the great masters.
More broadly, as we have argued throughout, engaging with the changing profile of backstreet abortion practices and their historically specific inscriptions, meanings, and appropriations, enables us to develop a historical understanding of the case of Ten Rillington Place.
What Reynolds hopes for from the commemorations is a more historically sophisticated understanding of the course and nature of the war in all its aspects.
Although any account of a Presocratic thinker has to be a reconstruction, we should not be overly pessimistic about the possibility of reaching a historically responsible understanding of these early Greek thinkers.
Historically, our understanding of how virulence evolves in pathogens has been marked by two trends.
Historically, our understanding of molecular genetic aspects of human germ cell development has been limited, at least in part due to inaccessibility of early stages of human development to experimentation.
Travis, understanding the historically unprecedented centrality he'd suddenly been granted, rose to the occasion with strained seriousness.
Faris Kermani, the documentary's producer and director, said through a publicist that the editorial decision was made to respect the "current Muslim view, understanding that historically this has not always been the case".
The point was to 'salvage historically the whole state of understanding attained by the movement of 1967/68; it was a case of not letting the struggle fall apart again.' These are words with long echoes in the German past.
