Abstract
We understand events in the world in terms of narratives which exploit the shared cognitive structure of our actions. We study narrative as one of linguistic phenomena which is challenged by the notion that human activity and experience are filled with meaning and that stories, rather than logical arguments or lawful formulations, are the vehicle by which that meaning is communicated. The aim of this article is to show, on the one hand, that the epistemology of historical understanding could have a lot of benefit from investigating the intense relation between the meaning, narrative and folk psychology. We deal, on the other hand, with some epistemological problems raised by the application of narrativist and contextualist method of historical analysis. In particular, we consider the questions that can be raised about the manner in which a historian can grasp past authors’ intentions, desires and beliefs.
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