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 
which definite, Hstory events are always open to
 interpretation. Science can be measures, history cannot. And as the famous saying says ' history is written by the winner'; you never know if the sources of history is true unless you have evidence. For science there is always evidence. in conclusion i believe that History cannot be a science but science can be history.

1 comment:

  1. 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').

    ReplyDelete