Re: [tied] *es- or *h1es- ?

From: Edgard Bikelis
Message: 41439
Date: 2005-10-15

    Hi.
 
I said:
 
>> Anyway, I'm almost convinced that there were
>> laryngeals, or something else in their place. It's
>>
just doxa, opinion, far away from epistéme, true
>>
knowledge...
 
and then Glen:
 
> Theory can't possibly be expected to ever qualify
> as "true knowledge" in the sense you use. Does that
>
disqualify theory? No, of course not.
>
> In the absence of
absolute knowledge, there is still
> relative knowledge. That's as good as
we will ever
> do but is far better than willy-nilly, mind you.
 
to what I answer:
 
Maybe I should had been more clear about that. I meant that I am not confident to say that _what I understand of PIE theory_ is true knowledge in the most possible true way, but that it is just what I grasped of it, with some errors here and there. I didn't say that the PIE theory isn't 'true knowledge', so I can't see the reason for your answer in what I said, but in what you managed to find in it.
 
Fair enough, anyway, because I agree with you, without never saying the contrary. I think it's the border of off-topic, that I don't myself intend to cross. If it's about epistemology, you know my e-mail. Anyway, for anything I say, please suppose the less polemic or... belligerant meaning, because I'm not too fond of it.
 
Edgard.