(July 22, 2023 at 12:56 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 22, 2023 at 12:52 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: If you have a theory about the philosophy of science, you should at least be able to explain why The Mad Revisionists are being unscientific, as well as why the Flat-Earthers are being unscientific. To me it seems that you haven't thought the things you say out.
The Maddies and the Flatties are being unscientific because they create a multitude of ad hoc hypotheses to keep their ‘theories’ from being falsified (feel free to scroll back to learn what an ‘ad hoc hypothesis’ is).
Boru
And the proponents of the mainstream interpretation of the names of places in Croatia aren't doing a multitude of ad hoc hypotheses to keep their theories from being falsified? Inventing that nouns in the Croatian language have significantly lower collision entropy than all of the words in the Aspell word list (a hypothesis which can be tested only by a very complicated experiment, which they aren't doing), inventing some unarticulated reasons why the information theory wouldn't apply to the names of places...