18-12-2016, 08:57 AM
(17-12-2016, 05:58 PM)stellar wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@ReneZ
I'm interested in your thoughts on the use of gematria as a possible solution to the VMS.
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Or do you think ReneZ that if it is in Gematria form this is like using anagrams as there is no way to prove this system.
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What would be an agreeable % that I was correct if many labels were found?
In my opinion, this is unproven. More specifically, it is unprovable.
The third point quoted above is of general interest.
It is a common misunderstanding that, if a proposed solution includes items that are facts, or suggests identifications of stars, herbs etc, this would mean that the solution is correct.
This does not follow. An incorrect solution can be full of references to historically correct items.
Let me make a small digression, but with a point.
One of the interesting aspects of being a Voynich 'dinosaur' is to be able to see the evolution of how people approach the MS. In the early 90's, there was no WWW to speak of, and no Google. People had to read books and papers. Most people had read a lot of the standard reference works that nowadays (almost) nobody reads anymore.
There's an interesting lesson to be learned from the failure of Newbold, as recorded in these old sources.
His solution, which is certainly wrong, was very convincing for a while, exactly because his plain text included references to events that he claimed hew knew nothing about, but could be verified to be true *after* he published his plain text.
While this seemed like the best possible proof that he had to be right, he was not, and it is largely accepted that he knew about these things (somehow) subconsciously.