Re: language origin, language evolution, evolutionary mutation

From: Kleinecke (kleinecke_at_astound.net)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: 14 Sep 2004 18:44:59 -0700

Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message news:<41482961.7533@alphalink.com.au>...
> All right, it hangs together logically, nicely. But
> it is all speculation. You have 43 propositions there,
> none of which is more than speculation. Let's be
> generous, and grant each a 50% chance of being
> right. You have about one chance in 9,000,000,000,000
> of being right.

You are too kind. How many of these proposition are falsifiable? I
gave up trying to imagine how to test them. I guess that makes it pure
speculation. Not science; perhaps history.

I have described history as an artistic reconstruction of what might
have happened that does not conflict with any known evidence. That was
not a popular definition but it sure describes this effort (assuming,
in fact, that there are no conflicts).

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