Re: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

On Tue, 27 May 2003 08:23:57 +0000, fortuna11111
<fortuna11111@...> wrote:

>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.

>> *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.

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

=======================
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...