Re: Waradpande seems to have destroyed PIE already

On Dec 2, 12:35 pm, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 2, 3:38 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What is "definitionem"?

Typo. Per definitionem, by definition. A law can be
violated, per definitionem, by definition, otherwise
it weren't a law.

Please learn the meaning of "sound law."

Sound laws allow some reconstructions and forbid
others.

No; on the one hand that's not a definition, and on the other it's not
what they do.

Now if the sound
laws of PIE hold,

That has no meaning.

there are the traditional solutions
provided by comparative linguistics, and now there
is a new one, the Magdalenian solution. I prepared
a test case concerning words for wolf, differring
pointedly from the traditional PIE reconstruction;
apparently it is possible under the sound laws
of PIE, as nobody pointed out a violation of
one of those sound laws in my reconstruction.

You have not announced the discovery of any principled regularity a la
"Grimm's Law," "Verner's Law," "Grassman's Law," etc.

Please learn the meaning of "experiment."

Please learn about the bottom up approach in ever
more scientific disciplines, as opposed to the usual
top down approach. For example in robotics, at the
university of Zurich. Making a robot walk in the
traditional way, programming its gait, is very hard.
Now a team at the university of Zurich experiment

Please learn the meaning of "experiment."

with very simple elements. For example with
a dog-like creature made of metal *** and simple
electromotors that move the legs. No programming
at all. The only thing is you can run more or less
electricity through the electromotors. Give little
electricity and the animal walks. Give more
electricity and it walks at a quicker pace. Give
again more electricity and it breaks into a trot.
Give again more electricity and it is trotting
faster. Give again more electricity and it breaks
into a run ... This animal can walk, trot, and run.
These ways of moving forward are not programmed,
they emerge in combination of the simple motors
and the specially shaped elegant and elastic metal
spine. This team is experimenting all day long.
What other word can I use instead of experimenting?
What is wrong about the word experiment in this
context? I really don't know what you mean.

Precisely.
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