The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

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The way I see it, knowledge does not progress in a linear way, but by way of spirals. Some negation will be followed by its own negation. I am not saying this just as a dialectical cliché. I really mean it and I have seen it happen countless times in research.

You find something not fitting in, so you think it needs to be set aside; you may even forget about it altogether. But then something comes up later that reminds you of something you had regarded as false or rejected before, but now it comes of use in a completely new way that you could not have even imagined possible before.

The spiral nature of research is exactly how breakthroughs happen, what was once discarded becomes the key when viewed through a new lens.

However, I would caution against thinking that this forum is the entire universe of Voynich research. That feeling of 'circular' progress might be a symptom of the environment. There is significant, rigorous work being done by professionals and academics 'out there', studies focused on hard empirical data and forensic analysis, that are the talk of the town in other circles but are never even mentioned here.

If you really want to deepen your analysis, don't be afraid to look beyond these threads. Sometimes the missing piece of the spiral is just outside the room   : )