Helmut Winkler > 20-10-2019, 05:51 PM
ReneZ > 20-10-2019, 06:43 PM
hermesj > 21-10-2019, 09:02 AM
(20-10-2019, 06:43 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Torsten's work has been discussed here quite a bit, in a critical manner, so I find it hard to understand Jürgen Hermes' comment that this would not have been the case.
Davidsch > 21-10-2019, 10:58 AM
hermesj > 22-10-2019, 09:16 PM
(20-10-2019, 05:51 PM)Helmut Winkler Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have taken the trouble of reading the Hermes post, just a few remarks.
I am not sure H. has understood Popper, the essence is that (scientific) theories must be disprovable and when I see O.'s razor as well I start running as fast as possible.
A paper in Cryptologia like all these papers in refereed journals (and elsewhere) means sod all nowadays, there have been to many scandals and all socalled expert opinion has to justify itself. To quote another philosopher, Immanuel Kant, you should make use of your own brain.
To come back to T.T. and his theory J. Hermes: Like many other theories, Talbot, Tucker, Rugg, andd so on it is simply ahistorical, it ignores the simple, undisputable fact that we have in B. 408 a document of the first half of the 15th c. and it projects 20th c. concepts into the Late Middle Ages.
ReneZ > 23-10-2019, 05:17 AM
Torsten > 23-10-2019, 07:44 AM
(23-10-2019, 05:17 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The hypothesis of Torsten has not only been commented on here in this forum, but also by Nick Pelling in his blog. It will be a bit hard to find the comments there and I don't know how to create pointers (links) to it.
Helmut Winkler > 23-10-2019, 08:29 AM
Anton > 23-10-2019, 04:41 PM
Quote:and I suspect most papers are not read, but only quoted
-JKP- > 24-10-2019, 01:48 PM