It is a theory-free method that looks at history through the accumulation of facts without major generalization and with consideration of the consequences of making causal claims.
[2] Menodotus' use of this notion was included in the extant Latin version of Galen's Subfiguratio empirica, where it was described as the third method in addition to perception and recollection.
[3] It is also said that the empirics devised epilogism to distinguish their kind of reasoning from the type used by the rationalists, which required an understanding of the underlying nature of things, including the link between consequence and exclusion drawn between states of affairs.
[7] It covered the ground addressed by the commemorative sign and featured the ordinary reasoning common to all human beings.
Epilogism is discussed as a way of viewing history in The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.