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: The brain abhors avacuum. Under the best of observation conditions, the absolute best, we only detect, encodeand store in our brains bits and pieces of the entire experience in front of us, and they'restored in different parts of the brain.
The brain can only record part of the information, and it fills in the missing parts when recalling it, which explains why people's memories can be unreliable.
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however, the distinction is not as clear at it may at first seem, for asource designed for one purpose may come to have very different uses forhistorians. For example, a film taken to record one event but which inad-vertently captured another
Some scholars believe that materials intentionally recorded are specifically created for use in history or other academic fields, while those unintentionally created were not designed for scholarly purposes.
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man beings considered as bearers of mean-ing, where the emphasis tends to fall on matters todo with individual or cultural distinctiveness andnot on matters which are primarily susceptible tocharacterization in purely statistical or biologicalterms’
The object of study in the humanities has been described as a “meaning bearer”,the study of subjects, usually human beings and their cultures, that have intrinsic meaning and value. This means that the humanities are more concerned with the deeper meanings carried in human behavior, thought, culture and expression.
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