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... United They Stand, Divided They Fall Topic 10 Joy Fan Candidate Number International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge Ms. B. Patton 16 April 2009 Humans tend to be inquisitive by nature. We tirelessly seek to know what we do not know and manipulate this gain in insight to aid us in further investigations. It is this strong desire that fuels studies in natural sciences as we attempt to provide explanations for the phenomenons we see. Similarly, the duty of historians does not stop at accounting events, they must also account for those events. Both of these fields require an individual to construct an description of what is perceived, and after applying logic to the situation, either a scientific or a historical explanation is to be formed, and this in turn serves as the model for human understanding of the world. Carriers of good explanations must be conscious of both the reality of the explanation as well as
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