Preface; 1. Introduction: truth and justification; 2. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments to the best explanation; 3. Justifying singular descriptions: statistical inferences; 4. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments from criteria and arguments from analogy; 5. Some common inferences in history; 6. Historical generalizations; 7. Justifying singular causal judgements in history; 8. Judgements of 'the most significant cause' in history; 9. Epilogue: truth and interpretation in history; Bibliography; Indices.

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