ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the topics of histories. It starts with Kate Pickering Antonova’s claim that histories are made with ‘enough’ sources and explains a key feature of historical ideas: that they are intensional. Intensional logic explains why different histories can be made with the same sources, and different histories can be made on the same topic. This idea of intension is explored with both a group of prize-winning world histories made by humans and everyday navigation technologies which recommend more than one way to get to our sought destinations.