Do you think if somebody is a Doctor of something ( has a doctorate, not medical doctor) that you should address them as Dr when talking to them?

For eg, if somebody holds a doctorate in history, or some other subject

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It depends on the meeting. I wouldn't necessarily. I used to have a teacher that everyone called doctor but I thought it was dumb because that wasn't his title as a teacher.