THE HISTORIAN’S HUMILITY: BETWEEN THE SILENCE OF SOURCES AND THE OUTCRY OF INTERPRETATION
INTRODUCTION: THE ILLUSION OF ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY “I know that I know nothing.” This famous paradox, attributed to Socrates, though repeated to the point of exhaustion today, conceals the most difficult lesson every researcher must learn. Unfortunately, we forget it all too often. We live in an era that obsessively demands iron-clad facts and categorical answers, … Read more