9 k , Clues : Roots of an Evidential Paradigm

In the following pages an attempt will be made to show the silent emergence of an epistemological model (a paradigm, if you prefer)' towards the end of the nineteenth century, in the humanities. Sufficient attention has not been paid to this paradigm, though it is very much operative in spite of never having become explicit theory. Such a study may help us to break out of the fruitless opposition between "rationalism" and "irrationalism."