Hello! My name is Aviah Shiff im from Israel but lived in Uganda for the past 5 years. In this blog i will be talking and reflecting about theory of knowledge (TOK) which is part of my IB program. Hope you enjoy!
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Is History a science
Although history considers and deals with facts, it also takes peoples opinions which may be based on facts but mostly may be a bit changed. Unlike science, history lacks predictive value and although it is a valuable record of happenings it can not be considered as science as a whole. History seems to revolve around the use of evidence-based methods to discern the truth however unlike science
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Good reasoning. It would have been helpful to refer to actual history to support your arguments. Your conclusion sounds really nice but calls for further explanation ('science can be history').
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