柯林武德认为,在历史研究中与现在无关的过去是不存在的,他本人论证历史认识应立足于现在,现在包含着过去,现在就是认识过去的证据。他相信通过重演思想,历史认识对象的特殊性将能保证历史知识的真。从而,在奠定历史学的“现在”基点后,他为20世纪以现在为中心的历史观开辟了新道路,同时他也维护着历史学的科学性,既反对传统的客观主义,又批判流行的相对主义。 According to Collingwood, there is no past that has nothing to do with the present in historical research. He himself argued that historical understanding should be based on the present, now contains the past, and now is evidence of knowing the past. He believes that by repeating the thought, the particularity of the objects of historical understanding will ensure the trueness of historical knowledge. Thus, following the establishment of the “current” basic point of history, he opened up a new path for the now-centered view of history in the 20th century. At the same time, he also maintained the scientific nature of history, opposing both traditional objectivism and Critical popular relativism.