Odp: [tied] Re: Croatians and the Carpathians

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 7446
Date: 2001-05-31

That would be too draconian. Even more exact sciences admit educated guesses and even wild conjectures as working hypotheses in the hope that verification will make us abandon some of them so that the remaining ones can be probed further. The problem is whether a conjecture can be tested at all. I have cited several other hypotheses about the origin of "Hrvat" and ventured one of my own (for which I don't claim any special credibility). There's in fact little to choose here -- none looks definitely more promising that the rest.
 
Piotr
 
 
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Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Odp: [tied] Re: Croatians and the Carpathians



Yes, I suppose you're right. What we need is a more scientific
approach to linguistics, in which all conjectures about something
that may or may not have happened are banned.

Torsten