PAUL M. ZALL

His larger point was that history is full of erroneous facts for a variety of reasons, and even though a particular historian tries to limit his views to the truth, it is not always possible to know the truth and to assess each claimed fact. Also, as in the sciences, new tools and techniques give us new knowledge and what was ‘true’ yesterday, is often not quite true today or tomorrow.

His larger point was that history is full of erroneous facts for a variety of reasons, and even though a particular historian tries to limit his views to the truth, it is not always possible to know the truth and to assess each claimed fact. Also, as in the sciences, new tools and techniques give us new knowledge and what was ‘true’ yesterday, is often not quite true today or tomorrow.