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A central principle of all history [is not randomness, but] contingency. A historical explanation does not rest on direct deductions from laws of nature, but on an unpredictable set of antecedent states, where any major change in any step of the sequence would have altered the final result.
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Hagoel, L., Kalekin-Fishman, D. (2016). Discourse. In: From the Margins to New Ground. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-298-1_4
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