SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Natural Science
13 Feb 2018
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Historians who reject others views calls them mythical. History was established as an academic discipline a century and more ago. A careful and conscientious historian needed only to arrange the facts into a readable narrative to produce genuinely scientific history. Natural scientists are ruthless in selecting aspects of available sensory inputs to pay attention to, disregarding all else. Historians seek to understand greater complexity of behavior then natural scientists. If a theory of human life is widely believed, it will actually change the behavior of humans. Shared truths that provide a sanction for common effort have obvious survival value. To outsiders these truths remain myth, until the outsider has connect and reason to join said group. People lived in isolated communities without modern technology, and any truths or big questions had already been answered by prophets and sages. Early history was recorded on kings, and boasts of divine favor.
