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| * evidence is liable to __forgery__, | * evidence is liable to __forgery__, | ||
| - | * "a" story, because history is liable to __bias__: every historian must be writing from some perspective --\\ \\ | + | * "a" story, because history is liable to __bias__: every historian must be writing from some perspective, has to make some __selection__ from all the evidence and sources available --\\ \\ |
| * e.g. even writing about the Roman Empire, a British historian in1900, during the colonial time, will write differently from a modern American historian;\\ \\ | * e.g. even writing about the Roman Empire, a British historian in1900, during the colonial time, will write differently from a modern American historian;\\ \\ | ||
| * so historians have a responsibility | * so historians have a responsibility | ||
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