[...] a good interpretation makes sense of such an impressive amount of mutually corroborating data that coincidence must be excluded. Such a result cannot be reached without sound practice and good method.
Y. DuhouxTags: cryptolinguistics decipherment philology
That so far the material has been dealt with in a rather subjective way provokes the question whether a means can be found of handling it objectively. [...] This chapter considers the applicability of the statistical tests employed by Wilson and the general problem whether the Linear B data are suited to statistical analysis.
Jennifer K. McArthurTags: statistics languages decipherment philology linear-b mycenology statistical-analysis
If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising precisely because we haven't got enough documents for the statistical approach to be wholly valid. I know you can calculate levels of probability and so forth, but to establish this really clearly we want a lot more information than we have actually got available. This is surely our major problem that we are still at the very limits at which you can use a technique of this sort. - John Chadwick
Jennifer K. McArthurTags: philology linear-b mycenology statistical-analysis john-chadwick
Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the human heart are observed.
James Henry BreastedTags: biology anatomy pulse human-heart ancient-egypt hieroglyphic ancient-medicine philology medical-history
There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings.
Peadar Ó GuilínTags: literacy graffiti philology
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