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Is it possible to have two conflicting versions of a single event that are both factually based?

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Yes

Step-by-step explanation:

Two different sources with verified backgrounds can both be reasonable versions of a single event, even if they conflict with each other. This happens a lot in history where different sources come from different people, resulting in different opinions/versions of a single event. It is up to the analyst to determine where the answer lays, whether on one side or the other, or somewhere in the middle. Most of history is analyzing these different points of views and determining where an event lies on a spectrum ranging from one extreme to another.

**this can also happen in english, but literature usually just comes from two different authors and they can write different things in their books about the event

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