You will prepare and submit a term paper on The Use of History and Science to Attain Knowledge. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on The Use of History and Science to Attain Knowledge. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length. This intellectual mindset cannot just simply claim that this stand is just out of the comfort and convenience to avoid academic debating. Subjectivism has had its foundation ever since intellectual modernity started even during the 18th century.

During the Enlightenment period, French philosopher Rene Descartes stated his famous dictum of “cogito ergo sum” or “I think, therefore I am”, it shaped the way how the modern way of intellectual thinking developed. Descartes’ theory helped shape the sciences and mathematics understand knowledge through theory and the rationality that human reason is always certain because it never doubts that it is rationalizing knowledge. This theory, of course, has been opposed by the British Empiricist philosophers who believed that the only way knowledge can be attained and be certain is through the experience of the physical senses. Eventually, different schools of thought from various intellectual fields would claim to be closest to the certainty of knowledge. History and science have always been the fields of study which tried to attain truth for the sake of credibility.

The perception of history has an essential position in human thought. It appeals to concepts of human activity, change, the part of conditions for materialism in human affairs, and the supposed significance of historical events. It suggests the possibility of better understanding things in the present, by understanding the decisions, factors, and conditions that brought events to its existing circumstances. It is not a surprise that historians, theorists, and intellectuals have from time to time turned their awareness to efforts to study history itself and the fundamentals of historical knowledge. In light of this, questions of historical knowledge ask whether events and things in the past exist and have any real significance to the present.&nbsp.