> On 15 kesä, 02:45, Matt Giwer
tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote:>>> On 14 kesä, 04:26, Matt Giwer
tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote:>>>>> On Jun 13, 4:37 am, Matt Giwer
tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote:>>>>>> There is no simple answer. In reading about social events northern South
>>>>>> America I regularly come across mention of people whose native language is
>>>>>> Mayan but these are stories by journalists so a grain of salt is required.
>>>>> Mayan is not a language, it is at least a dozen different languages.
>>>> but these are stories by journalists so a grain of salt is required.
>>> I don't read stories by journalists, I read linguistic literature.
>> One hopes you are not going to indulge in the logical fallacy of appealing to
>> authority.
>
> Appealing to *competent* authority is not a logical fallacy. If it
> were a fallacy, you could do no scientific work whatsoever. You might
> end up calling Hebrew Aramaic and Aramaic Hebrew just because you due
> to a personal, lunatic quirk don't trust the authorities involved.
In fact, no less an authority than Karl Popper pointed this out. There
would be no history if every neophyte had to do the work himself.
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