Re: Minerva-paper on the Phaistos Disk : The main argument

grapheus@xxxxxxx wrote:

So, I repeat here what I wrote in another thread :

Anyone who is interested has already read it in another thread.

How can I know, when there are no reactions ?..

There are no reactions because people are not interested. I think I've
said it once to Ole Hagen: people usually get interested in deciphering
scripts because knowing how to read one artifact you know how to read
other artifacts using the same script, and possibly decipher related
artifacts. This applies not only to scripts but to everything, the
delight in understanding a particular thing lies in no small part in the
way it brings other things closer to you. One-of-a-kind items - be they
the PD or some weird disease someone caught in 1856 and nobody's ever
heard of either before or since - are just not interesting to the human
mind. This is also why facts which don't fit established scientific
theories are disregarded - there is no clear way to integrate them. (The last sentence will be fodder to all our beloved kooks, but in fact
they've got nothing to hold on to: no kook has ever presented a
scientifically *novel* way to address irregular facts, what they present is commonplace mumbo-jumbo which they think is original just because normal people don't lose 5 minutes with it.)
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