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> [“No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree, there and then, is not a teleological necessity; it is a circumstantial occurrence" (OH 104-5). Because history is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/no-oak-trees-without-acorns-may-be-a-formally-true-proposition-but/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

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## More by Terry Nardin

> [“practices are displayed only in performances: a practice is the trace, the residue, of its performances. Practices are not "stable compositions of easily recognized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/practices-are-displayed-only-in-performances-a-practice-is-the-trace/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree, there and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/no-oak-trees-without-acorns-may-be-a-formally-true-proposition-but/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/empirical-reality-becomes-nature-when-we-view-it-with-respect-to-its/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“Memoirs, as everyone knows, make bad history.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/memoirs-as-everyone-knows-make-bad-history/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“Who I am depends not only on what I believe but on the beliefs embedded in the practices of the various communities to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/who-i-am-depends-not-only-on-what-i-believe-but-on-the-beliefs/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“the issue in historical explanation is to explain the character and not the mere occurrence of events. A historical event is not an atomic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/the-issue-in-historical-explanation-is-to-explain-the-character-and/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law: "more often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/in-oakeshott-s-view-ideas-like-natural-law-fundamental-values-basic/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/memory-is-not-history-even-though-memories-may-be-among-the-evidence/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“The degeneration of conversation into monologue, dogmatic assertion, is barbarism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/the-degeneration-of-conversation-into-monologue-dogmatic-assertion-is/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“Conversation itself has rules, which is why the conversationalist who insists that others must speak his language is a boor. To have a voice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/conversation-itself-has-rules-which-is-why-the-conversationalist-who/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“The demand for moral uniformity is more often practical than theoretical, a demand for moral certainty where none is possible. It is, for Oakeshott,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/the-demand-for-moral-uniformity-is-more-often-practical-than/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

> [“it is the historian's job to find coherence in the past, nothing in history can be regarded as accidental. For accident-mere chance or "fortune"-explains…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-nardin/it-is-the-historian-s-job-to-find-coherence-in-the-past-nothing-in/)

[Terry Nardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-nardin/)

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