In this article, I scrutinize knowledge as it operates in historiography. Historians find themselves in a peculiar position: they need to employ the tools available to them in their present in order to say true things about a past that might have been very different. I argue that our knowledge of the past is best understood through an informational account of knowledge and a coherentist account of justification. In this framework, knowledge claims about the past and anachronisms introduce no special epistemic problems for historiography, and once the logic of historical (re)description and evaluation is understood, historiography stands firm among the historical sciences in terms of the feasibility of its goal of speaking truthfully about the past.

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基本张力：过去和现在的历史知识

在这篇文章中，我仔细研究了在史学中运作的知识。历史学家发现自己处于一个特殊的位置：他们需要利用他们现在可用的工具来讲述可能非常不同的过去的真实情况。我认为，我们对过去的了解最好通过对知识的信息说明和对证明的连贯性说明来得到最好的理解。在这个框架中，关于过去和时代错误的知识主张不会为史学引入特殊的认识论问题，一旦理解了历史（重新）描述和评价的逻辑，史学就其目标的可行性而言在历史科学中站稳脚跟。诚实地谈论过去。