Q: Curt: “Is History a subject of Science? Are people holding Doctorates to be h

–Q: Curt: “Is History a subject of Science? Are people holding Doctorates to be held accountable to the standards of Science? Asking for a Friend…”–

😉 A friend answers: History SHOULD be a science, and we expect that it’s practiced as a science. But we have enough of a problem with mathematical, computational, and operational reducibility, and economic reducibility because of the complexity of causal density, categorical plasticity, point of view (participant, observer) and criteria for valuation (decidability) as well as the still (oddly) surviving debate over human nature and its limits (which we have solved), that while we can demand history be done scientifically, it hasn’t been possible until our work – and even then it only requires that, like our other work on the foundations of science, that the authors state their criteria at the opening.

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