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RE: Names of places in Croatia
January 28, 2022 at 6:54 am
(January 28, 2022 at 6:42 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: (January 27, 2022 at 11:28 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Actually, wrongness - not certainty - is the essence of science. It is by winnowing out wrong explanations that we arrive at the correct ones.
‘What are you doing?’
‘Science. I had an idea that turned out to be wrong.’
‘That’s a lot of charts and graphs.’
‘That’s because I was very wrong.’
‘What’s this paper here?’
‘My thesis. It’s a monument to my wrongness.’
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A lot of science works that way, but I am quite sure theses do not. In a thesis, you should only state what you think you have discovered, not what you were wrong (or are not sure) about.
Negative results are still results.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
January 28, 2022 at 7:10 am
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It's all part of describing your research. "If place names suggest that war crimes in living memory didn't happen, I would expect to find x y and z. I did not find x, y, or z...but I did find a mass grave, material witnesses, perpetrators, trial proceedings, and a monument to the event."
-back to the drawing board. Honestly, though, they're still picking unexploded ordinance out of the ground - you're never going to find evidence that supports those beliefs, not even in the weakest sense, where you find a lack of evidence to attest to the fact ........but........ linguistics has to be the single most hilarious place to look for it...or see it. As your comments about Stalin made so amusingly clear.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
January 28, 2022 at 3:59 pm
(January 24, 2022 at 8:04 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: (January 24, 2022 at 5:13 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It suggests nothing of the sort. For instance, Joseph Stalin's real family name was Jughashvili. 'Stalin' was a pseudonym he gave himself, and it translates to 'man of steel' (more or less). Stalin went on to rule with an iron fist. Steel is an alloy of iron. Does this mean Stalin was a mythological figure?
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Of course. Human beings cannot be that evil as Stalin is claimed to be.
Yes, they can.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
January 29, 2022 at 12:50 am
(January 24, 2022 at 8:04 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Of course. Human beings cannot be that evil as Stalin is claimed to be.
And can they be as evil as Hitler is claimed to be?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
January 29, 2022 at 1:40 am
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(January 28, 2022 at 6:54 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (January 28, 2022 at 6:42 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: A lot of science works that way, but I am quite sure theses do not. In a thesis, you should only state what you think you have discovered, not what you were wrong (or are not sure) about.
Negative results are still results.
Boru Yes, but I do not think they are good for a thesis, unless maybe if you have disproven some widely accepted hypothesis (not one you came up with).
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
January 29, 2022 at 5:13 am
(January 29, 2022 at 1:40 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: (January 28, 2022 at 6:54 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Negative results are still results.
Boru Yes, but I do not think they are good for a thesis, unless maybe if you have disproven some widely accepted hypothesis (not one you came up with).
Mate, you literally learned what a thesis is four days ago. Maybe you should study up before declaring what is or is not a good basis for one.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
January 29, 2022 at 6:31 am
(January 29, 2022 at 5:13 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (January 29, 2022 at 1:40 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Yes, but I do not think they are good for a thesis, unless maybe if you have disproven some widely accepted hypothesis (not one you came up with).
Mate, you literally learned what a thesis is four days ago. Maybe you should study up before declaring what is or is not a good basis for one.
Boru
Don't you think my guesses about what happened during Vukovar Massacre and my guess that *karr~kurr meant " to flow" in Illyrian are fundamentally different kinds of guesses? For the latter, I can put a p-value on it: it is somewhere between 1/300 and 1/17. For the former, I have no idea how to estimate the p-value to it.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
January 29, 2022 at 8:36 am
According to the linguist you sent it to...no.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
January 29, 2022 at 1:02 pm
(January 29, 2022 at 8:36 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: According to the linguist you sent it to...no.
What makes you think that she thinks my hypothesis about *k(a/u)rr meaning "to flow" in Illyrian is fundamentally the same kind as my hypotheses about Vukovar Massacre?
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
March 10, 2022 at 1:14 pm
(January 19, 2022 at 6:10 pm)Nomad Wrote: Interestingly enough your mathematical code has also been able to describe the smell of wibble. It is ptunk.
Really lad, you should go and get yourself a job, preferrably one involving at least some interaction with real people. The energy spent will take your mind off of bullshit like this.
You know as they say " Stulti semper sic statuuntur, quae non intellegunt, aspernantur et abutuntur.".
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