# Historicism Notes: ## Philosophies - Time as singular dimension - Anticipatability of events - Things which come to pass - Things which may never come to pass - Unknown whether an event could have occurred at the end of a different sequence - Inadmissible ## Double Negation - Reinforces propensity of human thought - Reflect on state of reality - Believe it can be changed - It is changed by Man - Disposition to believing that things come to be because they should - Our mediation of this becomes teleological - Our relationship to this is ontological ### Side Effect - Rationale for unwanted behaviour - Its negation is imminent - Tolerance for contradiction - Half truth - Able to entertain a clash of opposites - Provide the utility necessary to dominate - Will become parts of the whole - Control definition of