As part of a new trend in the writing of history, an emphasis on the details of historical events and motivations has...

Nativeguy on July 20 at 02:52AM

Interpretation ?

How can we know when it is safe to infer and when it is not ?

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Emil-Kunkin on July 20 at 05:10PM

We can infer within the bounds of common sense for most strongly supported questions. However, in this question, we don't need to since the correct answer is really a restatement of the conclusion. The argument on the whole is that there was a shift in historical writing, and this shift as the conclusion says, has impeded our ability to learn from history.