A viewer describes history as a transferable skill set for analyzing subjects, a view the response accepts. Polybius and Livy are foundational figures for the historical tradition discussed here. They helped establish rules and standards used by later historians but could not possess modern degrees in a discipline that did not yet exist in that form. Training matters, yet the practice of studying, analyzing, and communicating the past is older and broader than today's qualifications.
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Polybius, Livy, and the limits of credential gatekeeping
The founders of major Western historical traditions could not have held modern history degrees, so formal credentials cannot be made a timeless definition of the historian.