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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7474167" data-attributes="member: 42582">My opinion of history is that it is not a science - it involves careful observation, but not measurement, and does not provide the sort of systematically ordered knowledge that science does.That's not to deny that historians provide knowledge - not all knowledge is scientific knowledge.That's also not to deny that historians can identify causal relationships - not all identification of causation is scientific. (Eg I am identifying, right now, that movements of my fingers are causing events to occur in my computer, which in due course will cause other related events to occur in other computers, but I have not worked any of that out scientifically, and none of that is scientific knowledge.)</blockquote>