Discussion
Which of the following is true about sources ?
(a) They are more concrete in nature
(b) They are all historical in nature
(c) They are objective
(d) They include accounts of eye witness and personal letters
Choose the correct option :
Answer: A
The key's answer is (a) and (d).
Sources are the concrete traces of the past that historians work from (a), such as inscriptions, coins and documents, and they include eye-witness accounts and personal letters (d).
Sources are not 'all historical' in a narrow sense (b), since geography, political science and other subjects use sources too, and they are not objective (c): every source reflects the viewpoint and purpose of whoever produced it, which is why historians read them critically. So options containing (b) or (c) are wrong.
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