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Historians Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
Julius Pick: My pick is a book called Historians Fallacies, Toward a Logic of Historical Thought by David Hackett Fisher. Each chapter is about a different type of fallacy that we frequently commit when we try to explain what happened or how it happened in history. He says the part that he read so far of this book that I thought was most relevant to your podcast is Fisher's argument that a lot of the questions historians ask are just unanswerable.