Relations between history and truth. Use of counterfactual conditionals

Abstract

This article analyzes the relations between History and Truth, and between them and the conditional contrafact. In addition, it evaluates the importance of the "causes" of the fact that History narrates. This analysis shows the strong stumbling block that means the clear establishment of the connections between the facts referred to. Are those relations causal? Why political events are preferred by the "official" way of doing history? Can History really give an account of the past? Is the truth in History exact, unique? Conceiving History as a set of documents and not accepting any type of "interpretation" is a positivist vision, by all means, defeated. The facts are not isolated; they form relations between themselves that give an account of the times in which they happened.