Associate Professor, Department History of Uzbekistan Candidate of Historical Sciences, TSPU Named After, Nizami, Uzbekistan
Online published on 30 June, 2020.
In all the periods in which the science of history exists there has also been constant debate and-discussion about the concept of “historical evidence”. From the point of view of historiography, the concept of evidence requires a separate status, a separate definition, a specific rule. The historian must take the evidence and its specific aspects seriously. The fact that historians have been debating the essence of these concepts since the second half of the nineteenth century to the present day also shows the importance of these two concepts in the process of historical science and its research, and at the same time their complexity. An event is a situation that once happened. He argues that evidence is "a combination of a mentally shaped, character, thousands of simple and straightforward facts into a single piece of evidence." There is no objective content in the evidence and it does not correspond to the real historical reality. The content of the fact is not uniform in terms of the content of the subject and the aspect and nature of the research. It is important in the research process to be able to distinguish between factual evidence and historical reasoning, as well as factual information, from factual evidence. The ideas presented in this article are a logical continuation of the author's views on historical evidence and its interpretation in previous articles, based on the findings of specialized literature published in the field of history to date, the views of experts and the author's several years of research. The evidence will therefore be available in a separate interpretation. The selection of evidence is the result of a historian's unsubstantiated decision.
Historical Evidence, Historical Reasoning, Unsubstantiated Decision