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what is history? is history a science?
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what is history?
is history a science?
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believing history is science is supreme autism.

However, scientific methods are used to find as best a picture as we can know about the past.
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Science creates falsifiable, objective conclusions.

History is an art.
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There is nothing empirical going on.

Fortunately there's enough tradition and review going on that it doesn't get fucked in the ass as hard by dumb college cunts like other soft sciences.
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a degree in history falls under the category of "bachelor of Arts"

so yeah, not a science, but it's an art degree that has potential to be useful in the real world, more useful than philosophy or graphic design
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>>1153147
Of course comrade. The science of dialectical materialism
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History is the oldest and most widespread meme humanity has ever produced
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History is the science of the man of the past.
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>>1153147
History is everything that has happened before this moment.
We are able to examine History in nearly endless ways.
History is inexhaustible.

Marx felt that history could approached by Hegelian dialectics, which is a method using the pairing of opposites to result in a synthesis.

But it is just one of the ways to approach History.
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>>1153147

They're both social constructs.
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>>1153147
It is something the war winners and the bigger, stronger guys write usually.
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>>1153147
A genre of literature
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