Possibility for an a-priori constructed philosophical mathematical language
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(10-10-2025, 08:44 AM)Mauro wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's surely a possibility, and a constructed/philosophical language may possibly explain some statistics of the text, ie., the word structure. The problem is cracking it in a clear, demonstrable way (it's unfortunately rather easy to assign arbitrary meanings to glyphs groups and reconstruct a more or less coherent, and fully invented, text/meaning).

I think the only way to truly verify any system, as many Voynich researchers have pointed out, is not simply to have the "translation" of pages, using arbitrary meaning assignments, but instead to identify the text generation method.

If someone hypothetically invented their own constructed language of a very similar type, using the same style or mathematical mode of thinking as the original author, their own constructed language may have many similarities to Voynichese in terms of its fundamental rules and structure. If this language happened to be extremely similar to Voynichese, but functioned with the same strange paradigm of mathematical constructed language, they would be able to write coherent sentences that would potentially have similar statistical properties.

What if this hypothetical modern constructed language was similar enough to Voynichese that it elucidated the exact logic behind the text generation method, as well as the possible thinking of the motivation and philosophical underpinnings of why the language is generated in such a way? 

While this could still be considered arbitrary, if their system was able to predict specific ways in which the text is generated, for example by predicting the exact order of pen strokes, make accurate predictions about word and line rules, and predict which one-off rare glyphs would be likely to occur, that seems like it would be significant evidence that this system would be uncovering something more fundamental than typical arbitrary meaning assignments. Especially if this system could also produce new Voynichese text which matches all statistical patterns, but also encodes genuinely coherent meanings in a consistent system. 

I think if this system existed, and worked as described, it would be quite a validation of the Constructed Language hypothesis.
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RE: Possibility for an a-priori constructed philosophical mathematical language - by qoltedy - 10-10-2025, 11:29 AM

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