1. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
2. 3Collingwood , The Idea of History , 219 .
3. 4. It is clear that Collingwood was not driven by skeptical worries when we consider passages such as this: "as an actual experience of his own, Plato's argument must undoubtedly have grown up out of a discussion of some sort, though I do not know what it was, and been closely connected to such a discussion. Yet if I not only read his argument but understand it, follow it in my own mind re-enacting it with and for myself, the process of argument which I go through is not a process resembling Plato's, it is actually Plato's so far as I understand him correctly" (Collingwood,The Idea of History, 301). As the last clause "so far as I understand him correctly" makes clear, Collingwood's concern here is with the nature, rather than with the correctness, of the interpretation.
4. Historical Understanding as Re-Thinking