Comments on: What We Talk About When We Talk About History: (Hopefully) Part One in a Series… http://www.leisurelyhistorian.net/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-history-hopefully-part-one-in-a-series Comics, Cartoons, Computers, and Cultural History... Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:51:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lee Ann Ghajar http://www.leisurelyhistorian.net/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-history-hopefully-part-one-in-a-series/comment-page-1#comment-59 Lee Ann Ghajar Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:25:50 +0000 http://leisurelyhistorian.net/?p=33#comment-59 thanks for your kind lipsum comments--after a few days of Gaddis metaphors and listening to Bob Dylan, i was going to change it to Highway 61 (or leopard-skin pillbox hat), but you saved me. I would like to hear the counter-arguments of scientists who claim that that science is an art, but mostly, I am not certain I think it matters. So, there are no absolutes, and we are always reconstructing representational interpretations, but I share your perception of the importance of integrity in the methodology. thanks for your kind lipsum comments–after a few days of Gaddis metaphors and listening to Bob Dylan, i was going to change it to Highway 61 (or leopard-skin pillbox hat), but you saved me.

I would like to hear the counter-arguments of scientists who claim that that science is an art, but mostly, I am not certain I think it matters. So, there are no absolutes, and we are always reconstructing representational interpretations, but I share your perception of the importance of integrity in the methodology.

]]> By: Karin http://www.leisurelyhistorian.net/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-history-hopefully-part-one-in-a-series/comment-page-1#comment-58 Karin Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:01:17 +0000 http://leisurelyhistorian.net/?p=33#comment-58 No Tad...don't got to the dark side, where people believe there's no difference between physics and history! I understand what you're saying in you blog though. I started to see the similarities between the two fields in what Gaddis was saying also. The source-factor does keep up apart from our collegues with the bunsun burners and the beakers though. I think science, to an extent, is intepreting observations, and the same can be said for history. I guess my question based on that statement would be is interpretation historical sources and interpreting scientific observations fundamentally the same thing? That's too heavy of a thought to tackle on Labor Day though :) No Tad…don’t got to the dark side, where people believe there’s no difference between physics and history!

I understand what you’re saying in you blog though. I started to see the similarities between the two fields in what Gaddis was saying also. The source-factor does keep up apart from our collegues with the bunsun burners and the beakers though. I think science, to an extent, is intepreting observations, and the same can be said for history. I guess my question based on that statement would be is interpretation historical sources and interpreting scientific observations fundamentally the same thing? That’s too heavy of a thought to tackle on Labor Day though :)

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