From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 301
Date: 2003-02-01
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From: "H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...>
To: <Nostratica@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Nostratica] One, first, head, finger
> I guess I have to explain it differently. The heuristic is only a heuristic. The gold standard of science is math.
You keep rephrasing the same propaganda. Don't advertise the merits of the method. Show me some concrete results it has yielded. The standard comparative method has given us numerous protolanguage reconstructions; it has been used to identify scores of language families (not just IE, for your information). What has any alterno method produced so far?
Piotr