Tight and duties

1. External Criticism
and
Internal Criticism

2. External and Internal Criticism in history
Overview :
Historian draws his conclusion and generalizations on the basis of
these documents and facts. It is essential to check up the authenticity of the
documents and facts. It is the duty of historian to doubt every statement until
critically tested(Aggarwal 2017)
The process of criticism falls into two parts. The first important is to
whether the given source is at all admissible as evidence or in the other
whether the material is genuine or not.
Conclusions are worthless and labor is wasted if the document is fraudulent or
misjudged. It is necessary to know at the outlet whether the chronicle or relic
reality what it claims to be, or what is has been esteem to be.

3. •It is important to determine where and when it originated,
who was the author, and where he derived his information.
Another part of the critical process weighs the relation of the
testimony to the truth. One must decide whether the
statements made are trustworthy and, if not absolutely
certain, whether they are probable. The degree of probability
or possibility must be determined.(Archive, org. 2017)
•so when examining a source a historian MUST conduct
External and Internal Criticism.

4. What is External and Internal Criticism?

5. External Criticism
-The practice of verifying authenticity of evidence by
examining its physical characteristics;
-also called lower Criticism
Consistency with the historical characteristics of the time
when it produced ; and the material used for evidence.

7. Internal Criticism
-to determine if the content is accurate or reliable
-or higher Criticism
-it deals with important matter than External form.

8. External Criticism and Internal Criticism

9. Answer this following questions.(5pts each)
1.What happen if Internal Criticism is not practiced
by historians?
2.What is the main purpose of External Criticism?