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Catmull: Although historians consider themselves to be social scientists, Support different historians never arrive at the same conclusions about specific events of the past. ████ ██████████ █████ █████████ ████ ████████ █████████ ████ ██████████ ████ ██████ ██████ ███████████ █████████ ███████ █████ ███ ████ █████████ ████████ ████ ██████ ████ ██████
Summarize Argument
Catmull concludes that historians never determine what actually happened in the past. Why? Because different historians always arrive at different conclusions when studying the same events.
Identify and Describe Flaw
Catmull claims that, because historians disagree, they never arrive at the truth. The flaw in his reasoning is that some historians may still have arrived at the truth, even if not all of them have. The fact that they disagree shows that not all of them can be right, but it doesn’t show that all of them are wrong.
Analysis by TheodoreMalter
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