14-08-2019, 10:36 PM
René, "pleases you" was a reference to the previous post of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and the "you" is addressing any reader of this thread.
The point of my post was that we can only reject the idea that Elvis is alive, that the Earth is flat and that the moon landings were faked since we know otherwise. As long as the Voynich manuscript counts as unsolved we obviously don't know otherwise. Therefore I was suggesting to look for hypotheses and/or theories that might help us to understand the Voynich manuscript. The hypotheses given in my post are just some examples. If you would suggest some other hypotheses or theories please add them.
Hypotheses about generic classes of solutions are indeed not provable but they should be testable. Otherwise, a hypothesis would not explain anything and would therefore be irrelevant. For instance, a text using natural language should allow us to detect features all natural languages have in common. An encoded text using a verbose cipher or a codebook cipher should result in statistics typical for such a cipher. A text tampered beyond recognition during copying from an external source should not fit too well in the given space or should contain numerous corrections. Only for the inaccurate encoded cipher I would agree that this hypotheses didn't result in any testable predictions.
The point of my post was that we can only reject the idea that Elvis is alive, that the Earth is flat and that the moon landings were faked since we know otherwise. As long as the Voynich manuscript counts as unsolved we obviously don't know otherwise. Therefore I was suggesting to look for hypotheses and/or theories that might help us to understand the Voynich manuscript. The hypotheses given in my post are just some examples. If you would suggest some other hypotheses or theories please add them.
Hypotheses about generic classes of solutions are indeed not provable but they should be testable. Otherwise, a hypothesis would not explain anything and would therefore be irrelevant. For instance, a text using natural language should allow us to detect features all natural languages have in common. An encoded text using a verbose cipher or a codebook cipher should result in statistics typical for such a cipher. A text tampered beyond recognition during copying from an external source should not fit too well in the given space or should contain numerous corrections. Only for the inaccurate encoded cipher I would agree that this hypotheses didn't result in any testable predictions.