Similarities Between Natural Sciences And History

Natural Sciences and History are Areas of Knowledge. Natural Sciences is the area of knowledge about the study of the physical world, whereas history is the area of knowledge about the study of past events.(Miller) A way that Scientific and Historical explanations are similar is that they use some of the same ways of knowing, but the way they use certain ways of knowing may not be the same.

Reason is a way of knowledge that is used in similar ways in both Areas of knowledge. Natural sciences and History both use inductive reasoning in their explanations. Inductive reasoning is a type of reasoning where small pieces of information are used to come to a general conclusion.(Jones) In history, inductive reasoning is used by historians to generate their interpretation of the piece of history they are talking about at that moment in time. In the natural sciences, inductive reasoning is used by scientists to find or create scientific theories.(Miller) Both areas of knowledge also can be revised. In natural sciences, revisions of paradigms are caused by anomalies in data that are not from miscalculations in experimentation and were not previously seen and predicted. Said anomalies create paradigm shifts that further the world’s …show more content…
There several other ways the natural sciences and history are different and similar such as the fact that both observe bias but their biases are the complete opposite of the others bias, and the facts that they use theories differently and that one is subjective and the other is objective. Reason, Language and Faith were chosen as the ways of knowing i wanted to use because these ways of knowing are vital in both areas of knowledge and the idea they were similar in the case that they both used them but different in the sense that language and Faith in completely different ways and I find that concept rather