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Intro: When it comes to these areas of knowing, the natural and social sciences and history, there are many similarities and differences between the way we use each area for the purpose of explaining things.

I. Both the sciences and history use reasoning but in two different ways.
- When explaining the natural and social sciences we use induction.
- The Scientific Method

II. When explaining history we use deduction.
- The Cheques Lab

III. There are other differences as well
- When explaining the natural and social sciences we rely heavily on perception.
- The Stanford Prison Experiment.

IV. When explaining history we use knowledge by authority.
- Japanese Revisionist History

V. Counterclaims
- Science and history use the same means of explanation because both use facts to explain a situation.
- But not true because neither really has facts and they clearly work in different ways as shown.

VI. Limitations: Abusing the methods of explanation.
- Sciences
- Climategate/ Intelligent Design/ What the Bleep do we Know?
- History
- Japanese Revisionist History/ Big Brother’s Photoshop

VII. Implications
- Science
- If our perception is false then our conclusion is false.
- We can never prove anything.
- History
- Relying on second-hand experience has its limitations.
- We can never prove what actually happened.