(31-10-2025, 06:42 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."Consistent with a medieval origin" means only that they did not find any evidence of a more recent origin.
That is technically accurate. But then my mechanic's latest diagnostic report on my truck would also be consistent with a medieval origin of the manuscript.
So if a report is reasonably expected to provide evidence for a claim -- or possibly against it -- but instead provides no evidence that can be relied on in either direction (because, for example, it is found to be demonstrably flawed), is it not misleading to claim that it is "consistent" with any particular theory?