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Thread #156239   Message #3685053
Posted By: Lighter
12-Dec-14 - 10:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: I am not an historian but........
Subject: RE: BS: I am not an historian but........
> If anyone does come up with a couple, I will willingly change my claim to just the overwhelming majority instead of all.

This is called a "consensus based on the evidence," and it is the best anyone can do in interpreting any history and many other things. Nobody has godlike knowledge or understanding.

Anything else is just picking and choosing what makes one feel good (which is often synonymous with "righteously indignant"). It results in unsupportable claims that those who hold a different and better informed opinion are simply liars and fools.

Check out the evolution threads for a comparable example - though historiography is admittedly not a physical science like chemistry, biology, or genetics.