# Is History Based Upon the Scientific Method?

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-history-based-upon-the-scientific-method/5683>\
**Category:** Side Conversation\
**Created:** [April 6, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-history-based-upon-the-scientific-method/5683 "2019-04-06T03:28:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-history-based-upon-the-scientific-method/5683/11 "2019-04-06T14:20:15Z")

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> [@Do PS Members Believe in Scientism?](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/do-ps-members-believe-in-scientism/5667/73):
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> > Well, if that is all you’re arguing, then we’re not in disagreement. I’m not denying that there could be specific types of historical questions which could be investigated with something like the scientific method. I’d just say that it’s not the dominant form of reasoning in the subject.
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> You’re wrong about that. Good historians use the scientific method correctly.

Maybe we should ask actual historians about this. I don’t think two non-historians arguing about this is productive.

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