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The QUESTION
Ronald Wiltse July 2008
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• In the beginning, those who wrote about the past recorded traditions and whatever witnesses said without evaluating the quality of the evidence. The result: unreliable stories with wild details.
What’s the question?
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• History became more accurate when writers, whom we now began to call historians, began to
evaluate evidence.
What’s the question?
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• Evidence for past events can be
written or oral.
• (It can also be physical–the kind of evidence archeologists work with.)
What’s the question?
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• Many questions arise, such asIs the “source” in a position to know the facts?Is the source likely to tell the truth?
Does a second reliable source confirm the first source?
Are those the
question?
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• In articles and books written for historians and those serious about history, the evidence (documentation) is usually given in the text or in footnotes.
• In popular articles and books, the evidence is usually not stated.
But I want to know the question!
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• When we read a story where the evidence is not presented, we have the right to ask
The Question:
“Where’s the evidence?”
So that’s the
question!
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• Always ask The Question.
• Be skeptical about whatever someone tells you until you answer
The Question. I forgot the question.
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• If a friend tells you a “fact”, always think–Is the friend in a position to know
the facts? Is the friend likely to tell the truth?
Does a second reliable source confirm your friend’s story?
Where’s the evidence?
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Where’s Where’s the the
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that question!
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Where’s Where’s the the
evidenceevidenceI like
that question!
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Where’s Where’s the the
evidenceevidenceI like
that question!
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Pay attention to the
evidence!
Who is that?