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From: hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey)
Subject: Re: More Proto-World
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horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:

>One more example of the power of Guy's Laws.  Recall that


All joking aside, do you believe that humankind came from a single
source, say about 100,000-200,000 which is more or less the
standard belief these days?

Aside from the above belief (or nonbelief) is there any difference "in
kind" of what the proto-world, Nostratic, etc schools do that
is not done by the orthodox/standard schools? Or is the
difference only one of degree?


If there is no difference "in kind" but only a "difference of
degree" are there any statistical measures of how likely such
apparent cognates are either real cognates or chance occurrences?

PS. This is not intended to be a question only for you, or for
Jacques. It's just an open question. 

--
						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
