TOK and History

The checks lab is very similar to Carr's view of history, if we pretend that we are historians. This is because we received plenty of facts, some which we threw out and didn't see important. These facts didn't make it into our view of what happened- or what was history. For instance, we totally ignored the fact that there were names of animals on the tops of the checks, because we didn't see it as important. However, if we were positivists, we wouldn't have ignored it, because it would have been a fact. I think that history is indeed everythign that has happened in the past, however there are things that don't make it into text books, because they aren't important. Therefore, history is only what we want to see as history. It is like what we discussed yesterday in class... everything we see is based upon who we are.