: It must attend to history—specifically the "historical activity of understanding where [our ideas] came from"—because these ideas are contingent and have evolved over time.
: In fields like art history, it involves studying "documents" (traces of human thought/action) and "monuments" (artifacts that hold urgent meaning for us in the present). humanistic discipline
: Despite not being a science, it remains a "discipline" that requires clarity, reasoned argument, and "getting it right". : It must attend to history—specifically the "historical