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Why do we seek indisputable evidence when it is so often unattainable?…
Why do we seek indisputable evidence when it is so often unattainable? Discuss with reference to two areas of knowledge
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significance - unattainability is when something is out of reach and in relation to this question the significance of unattanibilty is not being able to come up with a definite conclusion, having multiple possible outcomes or no outcomes at all
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Knowledge of the past cannot be empirically verified through our present senses as we cannot directly have access to the past, which is already gone, or the events irreversible
Empiricism is a school of thought that lays heavy emphasis on the use of human senses to directly observe and record reality.
But how do we decide what evidence we need to accept or reject and on what basis? There is no uniformity of evidence and it would not be feasible to make all historians agree on the same perspective.