Re: [Rollei] Re: History

[Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings]

> History ain't science though.

It might not be "science" but it is certainly "vetenskap" or
"Wissenschaft".

English appears to reserve the word "science" for the physical/natural
sciences and doesn't have a proper word for scientific endeavors in other
branches of "learning" or "scholarship", those two words serving the
language as crutches.

Daniel

> I believe the scientific method might work for other things than science.
> But not all things.
> And if a "Historian" had read a whole lot of books about AN EVENT and then
> writes a book about it then that¹s one thing. With lots of foot notes. And
> references. Little numbers at the bottom of the page...
> But I was taught that you go to the source if you can. (in a history class)
> Read a book written by a guy that was there. Or gal.
> I've lived by that rule ever since!!!!
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> THAT'S HEARSAY!!!
>     I DO believe what Perry Mason says.
> Kind of like short for HERESY.
> Sounds like a legal method cross over to me. (from history to legal)
>
> But I DO believe in the germ theory!!!
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> Mark Rabiner
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