Skeptecism of History and Science - 1097 Words

A skeptic is defined in two different ways, a skeptic could be considered as a person who question the validity and raise doubts to all accepted opinions or accepted conclusion; a skeptic could also be a philosopher who denies the possibility of knowledge, or even rational belief, in some sphere.When knowledge is primarily presented by an abundance of assumption is brought up. Generally, a skeptic often is required to proceed a thorough evaluation of the assumption or hypothesis presented in order to provide factual clarity. What may seem correct has the potential to be completely faulty when another evidence clashes with the primary idea. The two areas of knowledge that requires to an individual to thoroughly evaluate, question their claim, ask for clarity, consistency in logic and adequacy of evidence is history and science. When analyzing a historical event, ideally information is required to be traced back in both quantitative and qualitative variables. History could be easily manipulated, misinterpret and biased. For a particular historical event, many claims could be laid out with certain amount of evidence. For example, many historians claim that the Holocaust did not happen and the conspiracy theory that America did not plan on the moon. The reality that anyone is able to propose various theories that contradicts what may seem as ‘facts’ to others proves that there are multiple perspective that needs critical analysis. Historians evaluates the evidence proposed, they