Timaeus, Aristotle, and Polybius’ degrees of truth

Polybius uses the criticism of historians to prove his statements and  his historical interpretation. It is, above all, his apodeictic method that  requires it: by placing under investigation others’ mistakes, at the same time  he has the opportunity to highlight what a historian must not do and  enucleate the canons of the right historiographical method. This article will  focus on Polybius’ historiography in relation to truth and the criticism of the  historian Timaeus. It will also show that Polybius’ notion of truth appears to  be multifaceted and it becomes a whole and unbroken essence only when a  proper historian deals with it after taking all the required steps  corresponding to the phases of historical science.