Is history a science?
By Kentbush18
@Kentbush18 (202)
China
March 14, 2008 4:43am CST
Do you think that history is a science? If your answer is yes, would you say that it is a science just like physics and maths? There are also people who basically take history as part of literature, with a lot of historical anecdotes to give us useful moral lesson. Do you agree with that?
1 response
@mrtimharry (1180)
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14 Mar 08
I would say history is not a sceince as it is nto definitive. History is written by individuals who have a perspective - for example those who win a war will be those who can write about it.
Maths and physics in general are science because there is one provable answer
@Kentbush18 (202)
• China
15 Mar 08
Indeed, history is somehow subjective, for it's written by the people, for the people. I do notice that the historical findings and be overthrown as time passes by and more records people found about the history.
However, theoretically, history should be a science, for the historical facts cannot be altered. Fact is fact. But in reality, it's not. It's manipulated by some malicious officials to control the people.
