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[Duranti] speaks of the 'nature' of archives as a fixed and immutable reality from which true archival theory derives. The nature of archives, however, is a human postulate, based on human assumptions and logically derived from those assumptions. These

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[Duranti] speaks of the 'nature' of archives as a fixed and immutable reality from which true archival theory derives. The nature of archives, however, is a human postulate, based on human assumptions and logically derived from those assumptions. These postulates may vary between individuals and societies and cannot be considered an observed fact or a testable hypothesis.

Citation Source: 
Boles and Greene 1996

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology