An introduction to the concept of historical thought with a lexical (moajemi) definition method

The lack of a significant definition for historical thought, like many words of historical knowledge, has caused ambiguity and errors for the researchers of this science. By choosing the lexical definition method, which has the subtlety of gathering previous definitions and providing a definition close to them, this article has answered the question of what definition can be provided to understand the concept of historical thought among the Available definitions with the celected method. ? By creating a semantic field of words with close meanings and using the library method, the researches gathered around these meanings and the definition of "thought tendency of an individual or the school of opinion in some branches or all the theoretical fields of history" are proposed for historical thought. Finally, in order to determine the boundary of the proposed definition with parallel concepts, the differences between (history, historiography, etc.) were discussed.