history

Geschichte  

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]