Tompkins Note

What terms for FBIs does Tompkins use?

• 718: imagination
• 719-20: frame of reference and points of view
• 727: point of view
• 728: biases
• 729: a way of seeing
• 730: perspective
• 730: position in relationship to the subject
• 731: values
• 730: assumptions
• 732: attitudes and perspectivism
• 732: some particular angle of vision
• 733: language-based reality
• 733: ways of seeing the world
• 733: "interpretive framework"

All of these things function as "lenses" between us and a historical event.