Re: Re[5]: [tied] Re: PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law

My understanding was that Trask saw mass com as
tantamount to intellectual laziness

--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 11:05:19 PM on Saturday, January 19, 2008, Rick
> McCallister wrote:
>
> > --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> >> At 10:30:23 PM on Saturday, January 19, 2008,
> Rick
> >> McCallister wrote:
>
> >>> I have nothing against Ruhlen.
>
> >> I have. Shortly before Larry Trask died, he
> posted quite
> >> a few examples of Ruhlen's intellectual
> dishonesty --
> >> *not* just incompetence -- to sci.lang. [...]
>
> > I respect Trask's position but I do feel mass com
> can
> > be a first step toward forming a hypothesis but it
> > only yields OPINION not FACT.
>
> I don't know that I've heard anyone, including
> Trask,
> seriously object to that idea. And mass comparison
> was not
> the issue in the examples that I mentioned.
>
> [...]
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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