{"id":1750,"date":"2010-07-19T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2010-07-19T16:24:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T20:24:02","slug":"the-merit-of-the-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/19\/the-merit-of-the-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Merit of sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When looking at merit of historical sources, there are five criteria that are of most importance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multiple Attestation &#8211; Do we have many independent sources?<\/li>\n<li>Dissimilarity &#8211; Do our sources seem to support the writers agenda? If not its better!<\/li>\n<li>Language and Environment &#8211; Does the language and the environment fit the setting it is supposed to fit?<\/li>\n<li>Coherence &#8211; Does what we are researching fit what we already know?<\/li>\n<li>Post-Enlightenment World View &#8211; Does it fit what we know about reality? For example, people don&#8217;t rise from dead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looking at merit of historical sources, there are five criteria that are of most importance. Multiple Attestation &#8211; Do we have many independent sources? Dissimilarity &#8211; Do our sources seem to support the writers agenda? If not its better! Language and Environment &#8211; Does the language and the environment fit the setting it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/19\/the-merit-of-the-sources\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merit of sources<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,147,150,154],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-my-studies","tag-storytelling","tag-teaching","tag-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}