Technical education benefits from the context supplied by history, philosophy, religion, and the wider arts. Historical research can assemble documents and verified facts without uncovering one decisive source that settles motive or causation. The historian must then show how the surrounding evidence supports a reasoned interpretation while acknowledging the missing link. On this account, history is an art rather than a science, even though disciplined evidence remains essential.
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Why historical judgment is more than collecting facts
The closing discussion distinguishes factual evidence from the interpretive judgment historians need when no single document proves an argument.