SECTION II, 1912 [133] Trans. R.S.C. 
Fundamental Processes in Historical Science. 
(Part I: THE Correct PROCESSES). 
By Hervey M. Bowman, Pu.D. (Lipsiensis). 
Presented by W. D. LeSurur, LL.D. and read by Title, May 15, 1912 
Copyright, Canada, 1913, by Hervry M. Bowman, 
(All rights, including translation, reserved.) 
CONTENTS. 
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ii. Fundamental Principles of Science..............:.....:. 
III. The Requisites for Trustworthiness in the Individual...... 
IV. The Correct Processes and their Applicative Principles in 
Historical Science. 
(a) The Five Correct Processes of Historical Science... . 
(b) The Four Applicative Principles of Historical Science: 
1. Where a Record or any Portion of it exempli- 
fies in its Statements the Requisites for 
Trustworthiness, such Record or Portion is to 
be accepted as Essentially Trustworthy..... 
il. Where a Record or any Portion of it is accepted 
as Essentially Trustworthy because the Re- 
cord as a Whole or in such Portion exempli- 
fies the Requisites for Trustworthiness, no 
Statement in it or in such Portion should be 
stamped as Erroneous save for a Necessary 
Cause Sho wi: eee cee a < 
ii. A Record exemplifying in its Statements the 
Requisites for Trustworthiness, if it be the 
Sole Record of the Events which it narrates, 
is not to be therefore impugned, either as a 
Whole or with respect to any Single State- 
ment, on the Plea that there are no Parallel 
Records to check or corroborate its State- 
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