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"H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...> wrote:
> I can give you N more
constructions. What does it mean?
It will never
> convince a scientist.
> It is only good enough for you.
That is real propaganda. Nobody has
to
> be flimflammed
> in math courses.
No flim-flam? From my statistics
courses, I recall:
1. 'Regularity conditions' e.g. for
Cramer-Rao lower bound. I believe
there are counter-examples!
2. Wilkes' Theorem - how many
attempts to produce a valid proof?
3. Continuous Markov processes
without delta skeletons. Remember
'coffin states'?
4. In many branches, the word
'obvious' is tantamount to 'proof
by intimidation'.
Richard.
[EOM]-------------
It starts with fundamentals and its
success can be seen
> all over the
> world.
>
> But then again, this is a
linguistics list, especially a
historical
> linguistics list, and
traditionally
> this branch has had the worst
rascals and racists. It looks like
we are
> going to have to
> relive that era again.
>
> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "H.M. Hubey"
<hubeyh@...>
> > To:
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> > Sent: Saturday, February 01,
2003 7:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Nostratica] One,
first, head, finger
> >
> >
> > > I guess I have to explain it
differently. The heuristic is only
a
> > heuristic. The gold standard of
science is math.
> >
> > You keep rephrasing the same
propaganda. Don't advertise the
merits of
> > the method. Show me some
concrete results it has yielded.
The standard
> > comparative method has given us
numerous protolanguage
> > reconstructions; it has been
used to identify scores of language
> > families (not just IE, for your
information). What has any alterno
> > method produced so far?
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> >
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> M. Hubey
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