@Olivier5,
Quote:True history doesn't get written collectively, it's the product of largely individual research, still.
In science you have testable facts. These are objective... no matter what society runs an experiment, they will get the same result. If a society wants to build airplanes, they damn well better understand Bernoulli's principle, they might have a different name for it, but the underlying science must be the same or airplanes won't fly.
There is no "True Science". It is just Science.
"True History" is largely objective. There are facts that can be tested, but history isn't about names and dates.
History is about constructing a narrative that is by its very nature subjective.
Take Christopher Columbus for example. The
narrative of Christopher Columbus has changed dramatically in the past 50 years in spite of the fact that none of the facts have changed a bit. The facts are quite simple, in the end of the 15th century he got money from Isabella and sailed to the Americas where he interacted with Native Americans.
But history is about our understanding of who we are as Americans. One narrative has Columbus as a hero... an adventurer who discovered America and changed world history. Another (and there are more than two) has him as a villain, a rapist and slave trader who started a genocide.
Is either one of these narratives false? No. They are stories that are designed to reflect our values and sense of self. The facts are rather secondary to the narrative we tell.