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We next have in mind that the term “history” is not so much ‘the past’ in the sense of that which is past, but rather derivation from such a past. Anything that ‘has a history’ stands in the context of a becoming. In such becoming, ‘development’ is sometimes a rise, sometimes a fall. What ‘has a history’ in -this way can, at the same time, ‘make’ such history. As 'epoch-making', it determines 'a future' 'in the present'. Here “history” signifies a ‘context’ of events and ‘effects’, which draws on through ‘the past’, the ‘Present’, and the ‘future’. On this view, the past has no special priority.