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To: Neocon who wrote (84698)	8/3/2000 1:36:10 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

No one with any brains accepts history as fact in the same way one accepts that 2 plus 2 equals 4. History is slanted by who witnessed it, WHAT they witnessed and who wrote about it, and what they chose to write about, and it is never objective. 2 plus 2 is always 4 no matter who writes about it- that IS objective and fact. And we frequently find out that history wasn't what we thought it was. Of course we'll never know what it REALLY was- but sometimes we get closer to the truth. The further back you go, the more unreliable history is- because the fewer sources you have to use as a convergence to something that might approach fact (but never meet it). There are some historical "facts" that are MORE objective than others, but all history is fairly subjective. That's why it isn't considered science.