[Article] Unconventional Methods in Voynich Manuscript Analysis

[Torsten]

It seems that you believe that meaning is a property of a text. But meaning is something the writer of a text had in his mind ...

No, I don't, as should be clear e.g. from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .

However, this is a simplification we need to make, since we only have the text, and we cannot talk to the writer.

Indeed, we cannot talk to the writer. All we have is the VMS-script and the VMS-text. We have to analyze the key-features of this text in order to try to understand how the script and the text works. You say it yourself "What we do know for certain, however, is that some time in the past, somebody or some group of people sat down and wrote the Voynich MS using some method. ... This text generation method is what we should be looking for" (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).