In ca. 1800, Immanuel Kant reminded us that we never know the Ding an Sich, the “thing in itself,” but rather the experience of our subjective renderings of it. Since each of us has a different subjective terrain, a different series of histories with their imposing analogical templates, our “stories” about the same event will often vary so greatly. (Think of the number of stories witnesses provide after observing a traumatic event.)
