Re: Arminius/Hermann

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 19-04-2004 10:32, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > The word "exotic" does not appear in any of the versions of Occam
> > I've seen. You're just restating the your faith in your way of
> > seeing it.
>
> By "exotic" I mean extra-Germanic. Since *sigiz- (Sigi(s)-, Seges-)

is a

> Germanic element and it often occurs in traditional Germanic

personal

> names, any name of a person from a Germanic tribe in which *sigiz-

can

> be identified should be considered Germanic unless demonstrated to

be

> something else. That's consistent with the methodological principle

of

> parsimony.
>

The question under discussion was whether the Cherusci were Germanic.
You're assuming what you set out to prove. Or perhaps this is the
principle of Occam var. Ga,siorowski: Libri non sunt legendi praeter
necessitatem?

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