History—in opposition to historiology (im Gegensatz zur Historie)—is in no way an inquiring (Erkunden), but rather the mode and manner in which something is (die Art und Weise, wie etwas ist). History is the actuality of what occurs (Geschichte ist die Wirklichkeit des Geschehens), and is thus the object of historiology (Gegenstand der Historie). The historian always already presupposes what history is. Always having in advance a determinate guiding representation (Leitvorstellung) concerning the essence of its domain is what characterizes, as we have seen, every science. (GA46:262; tr. Haase & Sinclair)
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