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

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > > 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.

****GK: If "the number of possible values for each

> parameter is
> finite and relatively small", there sould be no

objection to specific discussions. Personally, I'm not
too interested in issues which abstract from such. But
perhaps others are. It's up to them to sit down with
you with the "appropriate" spoon.(:=)).****





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