Re: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

From: fortuna11111
Message: 22323
Date: 2003-05-28

> >Hi Miguel,
> >
> >> Time is limited and life is short, so one good example
should be
> >> enough to make a point.
> >
> >I totally disagree with the second part of your sentence. A
good
> >example can be a point of starting an argument though.
>
> No, you cannot argue unless you have a counterexample.

That's true.

>
> >> *kWod > *hwat is a good example, so unless you can find a
good
> >> counterexample, we must all agree that PIE *d gives Gmc.
*t, also in
> >> final position.
> >
> >This is not science.
>
> Yes it is. It's based on facts, and it's falsifiable.

I get your point :-)

>
> >> Don't they teach the Ausnahmslosigkeit anymore?
> >
> >Yes, and they give several tons of examples for a single
> >transformation.
>
> Several tons of examples are worth no more than a single one
(from a
> scientific, not an educational, point of view).

I disagree. A single one could take you to the tons. Or it can
take you into stating the opposite.

One counterexample
> brings several tons of examples down just as easily as it does
the
> single one.

Hehe, I think we repeat ourselves :-)

Eva