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Science is a process in which conclusions are made from evidence. It does not deal in proof and scientific conclusions change when new evidence is available. Ob
by jhbadger 10y ago
Science is a process in which conclusions are made from evidence. It does not deal in proof and scientific conclusions change when new evidence is available. Obviously a historian uses this process as much as physicist. Mathematics in itself is not science, but it can be used as a tool for science if the assumptions in the mathematical models are based on evidence. An answerable question is one in which evidence can actually be used to test whether one answer is better than another.
- RodericDay 10y agoHistorians do not do science. Your definition of science seems is so broad it's meaningless.
- jhbadger 10y agoDo paleontologists do science in your opinion? Or archeologists? They also are using evidence to answer questions of the past. What makes historians different? What is meaningful about the broad definition of science is it separates the people using evidence from those just using "gut feeling" (or mystic intuition or whatever they want to call it).