[tied] Re: Proto Vedic Continuity Theory of Bharatiya (Indian) Lang

From: tgpedersen
Message: 41910
Date: 2005-11-08

> > Let me try to be the Devil's advocate here:
> >
> > PIEers live in somewhere in India,
>
> ****GK: When?***
As appropriate.

>
> several groups
> > emigrate from
> > there to the northwest,
>
> ****GK: When? Where?****
As appropriate.
>
> Asian groups arrive in the
> > PIEers land,
>
> ****GK: Whence?

Somewhere in Asia, most likely.

And the PIE land was uninhabited prior
> to their initial arrival?****

Extraneous to the scenario, so yes/no.

> > PIEers mix with them.
> >
> > If this scenario is wrong, it should be provably
> > wrong. How?
>
> ****GK: Add the other specifics first.****
> >

No.
For this scenario to be proven wrong once and for all, it should be
proven wrong for any possible value of the parameters you ask me to
specify (and the number of possible values for each parameter is
finite and relatively small, so it should be practically possible
too). If I had provided any values, you might be able to prove the
scenario wrong for exactly those values, but _not_ (obviously) for
any other given set of parameter values. So the menace of this
scenario being possibly right would live on.


Torsten