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Why can we not require of historians that they recount history ""simply as it happened""?

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Answer:

Historians might not exactly know "simply as it happened"

Step-by-step explanation:

For starters, a historian might not know exactly how it happened or simply as it happened, therefore who cannot require them to. If we did we would get inaccurate accounts that wouldn't be beneficial.

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