Posted: Jan 31, 2016 2:33 am
by Leucius Charinus
In a nutshell:


    History is, in short, a problem-solving discipline.

    A historian is someone (anyone)
    who asks an open-ended question about past events
    and answers it with selected facts which are arranged
    in the form of an explanatory paradigm.



"Historians Fallacies Toward A Logic Of Historical Thought"
by David Hackett Fischer
https://archive.org/stream/HistoriansFa ... t_djvu.txt