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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
But when the contemporary sources say the same thing in spite of supporting different sides and tally with independent foreign accounts especially when it's potentially detrimental to them how much more proof is actually needed.
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You just have to preface anything you say that it was thought by some and end it with the suggestion that some sources need to be viewed with discretion. The teaching of history has become based on actually looking at sources by eye witness and contemporary non eye witness(hearsay) and later hearsay.Just because something is written down does not make it a truth.
It's no different than checking facts online today..you have to bear in mind the agenda someone might have in slewing information to convey a certain viewpoint as fact.