Re: new book on the spread of IE

On Feb 13, 3:25 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 12, 4:31 pm, Harlan Messinger

<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They aren't inscriptions just because you imagine that they are.

And what is your evidence that there are no Paleolithic
inscriptions in cave art?

None have ever been found.

They aren't one just because you imagine that they are.

And what is your proof that visual language is no language?

The definition of "language."

Remind him that you have an active imagination?

Understanding reality requires the most active imagination.

So you let your imagination take several years to crystallize. You still
haven't gone one step beyond "it's true because I say so".

I don't say "It's true," I say: it may be so, I have an idea,
let me follow this idea and look how far I get ... This,
you may know, is the usual procedure in the sciences.
And then I might remind you once again of Sir Karl
Popper who did not only ask for testable and falsifiable
but also for daring hypotheses - the more daring the better.

But if they're not testable/falsifiable, they're not science, no
matter how daring.
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