Thursday, September 26, 2013

In my opinion, history is not a science. It does share some features with science, but as far as I know it doesn't use the scientific method in a particularly significant way. Like science, it is about finding, cataloguing, and confirming facts and knowledge, but unlike science, it doesn't find these facts by forming hypotheses and conducting experiments.

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  1. Ben - good job comparing and contrasting the particulars of historical and scientific inquiry.

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