RE: Names of places in Croatia
March 28, 2023 at 11:37 am
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2023 at 11:39 am by FlatAssembler.)
(March 27, 2023 at 2:32 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(March 27, 2023 at 11:59 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I don't understand what you are asking. Nor am I too familiar with Peter Unger's philosophy. I know about his thought experiment about accidental knowledge only because it was in our philosophy textbook.
You don't understand things, in general... and your knowledge of peter unger is wholly accidental? All of this, all of it, because you needed to deflect from the embarrassment of having asked whether other people would be more wrong than you, if they didn't even attempt to do whatever wrong thing you may have done.
My friend, can you explain to me, how could I be wrong? I have been thinking about that for more than a year, and I can think of two ways I can be wrong, none of which seem likely.
1. Using collision entropy, although it seems like a very natural choice, is inappropriate here. Markovnikov Chains, or some more appropriate model of the language, would perhaps provide a very different result from using collision entropy with birthday calculations. Which seems unlikely as two PhD informaticians (Anđelko Lišnjić and Franjo Jović) have reviewed my paper and have not noticed that.
2. Some phonosemantic hypothesis is true. In that case, the entire historical linguistics is, well, not based on good principles. If some phonosemantic hypothesis is true, looking for regular sound correspondences to establish that two languages share a common ancestor is also unreliable, and not just the method of analyzing toponyms I came up with.
In either case, how is the mainstream methodology less wrong?