Power users and mods just keep repeating: “History is not a science because culture (i.e., god) is all-powerful. We might use evidence but we distrust grand theories.”
Power users and mods just keep repeating: “History is not a science because culture (i.e., god) is all-powerful. We might use evidence but we distrust grand theories.”
i’ve never seen someone so pressed about intersectional theory. the AH people made a misstep in not identifying their practice as such but it’s pretty damn obvious.
they also misidentify why history isn’t science: because it’s literature and interpretation. it is not a science in which evidence cannot compel a conclusion, identifying the constant relitigation of history as a scientific process embarrasses the historian’s writing talent and expects there to be an attainable truth at the end of the process.