Reasoning in Historiography

Abstract

The paradigmatic change that narrativism brought about in the theory and philosophy of history and historiography, as already emphasized a number of times, is that it turned our attention to what the books of history as more or less autonomous entities are. After all, they are the main knowledge contributions of historiography. Since books are composed of a large number of sentences organized in a handful of chapters, and perhaps subchapters, it is only natural to ask what it is that binds all these elements together. There has to be something that ties together the chapters and, ultimately, the content in those chapters. What is it?