On Jun 16, 9:46 am, Martin Edwards
yahoo.com> wrote:>> 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.
Did he? I have not read much Popper, but I do have the "Logic of
Scientific Discovery" waiting to be read. Now that we have seen that
great minds think alike, it would be a good idea for me to get more
closely acquainted with this other great mind. :)
