bi3mw > 11-02-2021, 05:11 PM
(11-02-2021, 04:50 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."The Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown, possibly meaningless writing system"Exactly, because there is the word "possibly", the writer in Wikipedia will probably refuse to accept a change of the text.
Helmut Winkler > 11-02-2021, 07:09 PM
bi3mw > 11-02-2021, 07:24 PM
Koen G > 11-02-2021, 08:02 PM
(11-02-2021, 07:09 PM)Helmut Winkler Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I hope all of you know the story of Buridan's ass
RenegadeHealer > 11-02-2021, 08:16 PM
(11-02-2021, 04:49 PM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think it's unlikely that there's any text next to the drawings that doesn't say anything.
Accordingly, I agree with bi3mw, not RenegadeHealer.
Koen G > 15-02-2021, 12:50 AM
(15-02-2021, 12:31 AM)Stephen Carlson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Personally, I've never found this line of argument appealing. If you look at the immense ingenuity displayed in fakes and hoaxes over the centuries, the amount of effort devoted to them is the least surprising thing.
Stephen Carlson > 15-02-2021, 02:18 AM
(15-02-2021, 12:50 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I was a teenager when the Hitler diaries came out. One of the defenses was that no forger would forge 60 volumes of such banal material. This turned out to be wrong, very wrong.(15-02-2021, 12:31 AM)Stephen Carlson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Personally, I've never found this line of argument appealing. If you look at the immense ingenuity displayed in fakes and hoaxes over the centuries, the amount of effort devoted to them is the least surprising thing.
Are you sure we are not dealing with an outlier in terms of text size? Do you know of anything pre-1500 that comes close?
ReneZ > 15-02-2021, 07:10 AM
Stephen Carlson > 15-02-2021, 09:34 AM
(15-02-2021, 07:10 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well, Rich Santacoloma could complain that his theory is not adequately addressed, and so could Gordon Rugg. How much space should every paper reserve for addressing the possible theories that it is contradicting?It is in the end, a judgment call. Not every possible theory should be addressed, of course, but the stronger ones should not be ignored at the expense of the weaker ones, which is how I classify Rugg's.
Should it try to disprove them rather than bring arguments in favour of its own topic?
Koen G > 15-02-2021, 10:07 AM
(15-02-2021, 02:18 AM)Stephen Carlson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The VM is an outlier on almost every theory for it. But to so easily dismiss it as can't-be-fake simply based on the effort required strikes me as naive.