COHERENCE AND AMBIGUITY IN HISTORY.
abstract This article is about the logic of the concept of "coherence" as used by historians to justify an argument. Despite its effectiveness in historical arguments, coherence is problematic for epistemologists and some theorists of history. The main purpose of this article is to present some insi...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 167 - 181 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2000
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