fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 months agoWe don't judge here. :)mander.xyzimagemessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up11.03Karrow-down147
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minus-squaremilicent_bystandrlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months ago usually people consider mathematicians as scientists Yikes! … Wait, does this mean I can call a historian an artist? Then I’m game.
minus-squareBigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoYou can call them whatever you want, what are they going to do? They’re historians!
minus-squaremilicent_bystandrlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoIn twenty years time they’ll rip into me on r/askhistorians
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoHistorians are scientists imo. Is that a reference I don’t have?
minus-squaremilicent_bystandrlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoUsually (in my experience?) history is one of the ‘humanities’, which are more lumped with arts than sciences.
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoYes it usually is, but I think the methodologies for modern history research is very much scientific.
Yikes!
… Wait, does this mean I can call a historian an artist? Then I’m game.
You can call them whatever you want, what are they going to do? They’re historians!
In twenty years time they’ll rip into me on r/askhistorians
Historians are scientists imo. Is that a reference I don’t have?
Usually (in my experience?) history is one of the ‘humanities’, which are more lumped with arts than sciences.
Yes it usually is, but I think the methodologies for modern history research is very much scientific.