English Explanatory Dictionary

Skinner's maxim

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The principle that any historical account of what someone meant by a certain action or statement must in some measure conform to that person’s own understanding of what they were saying or doing.

Word forms

Skinner's maxim

Etymology

After British intellectual historian Quentin Skinner, who formulated the principle in 1969.

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