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    Historians strive to reconstruct the total past of humanity from incomplete evidence and their point of view. For the historian, history includes only the parts of the human past that can be meaningfully pieced together from available records and inferences about their context. Unlike natural sciences which study objectively measurable phenomena, the study of history is subjective as documents and artifacts are scattered and incomplete records of the total past being examined.

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    Historians strive to reconstruct the total past of humanity from incomplete evidence and their point of view. For the historian, history includes only the parts of the human past that can be meaningfully pieced together from available records and inferences about their context. Unlike natural sciences which study objectively measurable phenomena, the study of history is subjective as documents and artifacts are scattered and incomplete records of the total past being examined.

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    HISTORY AS THE SUBJECTIVE

    PROCESS OF RE-CREATION 

    From the incomplete evidence, historians strive to restore the total past of

    mankind. They do it from the point of view that human beings live in different times and

    that their experiences maybe somehow comparable, or that their experiences may have

    significantly differed contingent on the place and time. For the historian, history

    becomes only that part of the human past which can be meaningfully reconstructed

    from the available records and from inferences regarding their setting. 

    In short, the historian's aim is verisimilitude (the truth, authenticity, plausibility)

    about a past. Unlike the study of the natural science that has objectively measurable

    phenomena, the study of history is a subjective process as documents and relics are

    scattered and do not together comprise the total object that the historian is studying.

    Some of the natural scientists, such as geologists and paleo-zoologists who study

    fossils from the traces of a perished past, greatly resemble historians in this regard, but

    they differ at certain points since historians deal with human testimonies as well as

    physical traces. 

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