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author". An author's trustworthiness in the main may establish a background probability for the consideration of each statement, but each piece of evidence extracted must be weighed individually.

Procedures for contradictory sources

Bernheim (1889) and Langlois & Seignobos (1898) proposed a seven-step procedure for source criticism in history:

# If the sources all agree about an event,

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