ABSTRACT
In the preceding chapter two statements were made without making the reader aware of the antinomy hidden in them. Both statements attempted to grasp the epistheme-character of historiography. The first statement reads as follows: historiography is always an expression of historical consciousness, it is one form of its imputed consciousness. The second statement reads as follows: historiography has to disconnect knowledge about the past from pragmatism and direct practical involvement in the present and for the future.
