Re: One, first, head, finger

--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com,
"H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...> wrote:

> I can give you N more

constructions. What does it mean?
It will never

> convince a scientist.
> It is only good enough for you.

That is real propaganda. Nobody has
to

> be flimflammed
> in math courses.

No flim-flam? From my statistics
courses, I recall:
1. 'Regularity conditions' e.g. for
Cramer-Rao lower bound. I believe
there are counter-examples!
2. Wilkes' Theorem - how many
attempts to produce a valid proof?
3. Continuous Markov processes
without delta skeletons. Remember
'coffin states'?
4. In many branches, the word
'obvious' is tantamount to 'proof
by intimidation'.
Richard.
[EOM]-------------
It starts with fundamentals and its
success can be seen

> all over the
> world.
>
> But then again, this is a

linguistics list, especially a
historical

> linguistics list, and

traditionally

> this branch has had the worst

rascals and racists. It looks like
we are

> going to have to
> relive that era again.
>
> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
> >
> >
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> M. Hubey
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