Lascaux, a lunisolar calendar
(early 2005 - early 2006)
www.seshat.ch/home/lascaux.htm
what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)
subtitle
Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7
(January 23, 2006, till October 3, 2008)
www.seshat.ch/home/lascaux2.htm
(Magdalenian dictionary)
Magdalenian experiment (continuation)
(October 7, 2008, till February 2011)
www.seshat.ch/home/lascaux3.htm
www.seshat.ch/home/lascaux4.htm
www.seshat.ch/home/lascaux5.htm
Magdalenian experiment (year seven)
(February 24, 2011, till September 12, 2011)
Meanwhile there are four Magdalenian test cases:
1) bear as the furry one - provider of the best fur,
thick, longhaired, soft and warm - versus bear
as the brown one
2) deus theos / Zeus versus deus Zeus / theos
- deus and theos derive from Magdalenian DhAG
meaning able, good in the sense of able, a word
of very many derivatives, while Zeus derives from
TYR meaning overcomer, as verb to overcome
in the double sense of rule and give, Magdalenian
TYR emphatic Middle Helladic Sseyr (Phaistos
Disc, Derk Ohlenroth) Doric Sseus (Wilhelm
Larfeld) Homeric Zeus. DhAG and TYR are
to some extent interchangeable, but they should
not be nivellated
3) PAC AS and PAC AS AS and AS PAC and
PAC SA and AC PAS versus *h1ekwos 'horse'
upward AS horse PAC, emphatic horse up up
PAC AS AS Pegasos Pegasus, personfying the
summer wind Afghanetz, blowing from the Aral
Sea along the Amu Darya to the Hindu Kush
AS PAC became Avestan aspa 'horse' and
Sanskrit asva 'horse', AS PAC aspa asva
horse PAC downward SA is present in the
Indo-Aryan name of the Amu Darya, Vaksu,
surviving in the name of the Vakhsh, the
increasing river, swelling with melting snow
and glaciers in summer, increasing by a factor
of ten or more, symbolized by a herd of horses
running down a valley, PAC SA Vaksu Vakhsh
AC PAS, an expanse of land with water AC
everywhere in a plain PAS, here south and north
of me, east and west of me, all in all five places,
Greek pas pan 'all, every' pente penta- 'five'
- riding this animal you can get everywhere PAS
on earth AC ... AC PAS accounts for *h1ekwos
Greek hippos Latin equus and for the name of
the Gallo-Roman horse goddess Epona who
was an alter ego of REO Rheia Rhea (one of her
main places of worship was Alesia at the base
of Mont Réa near a source of the river Seine,
Epona rode a horse in lady fashion, accompanied
by a bird, a foal, and a dog, evoking the animals
of the sons of Rhea, the eagle of Zeus, the horse
of Poseidon, and the dog of Hades)
PIE derives not only hippos and equus from
*h1ekwos but also Avestan aspa and Sanskrit
asva. Magdalenian discerns between AS PAC
aspa asva and AC PAS hippos equus Epona.
AS PAC and AC PAS are phonetically close
but semantically completely different
4) The first Indo-European homeland were the
banks of the Amu Darya, the second IE homeland
were the Uralic steppes east of the Volga, ancient
name Rha, from REO, and the third IE homeland
were the Pontic steppes west of the Volga / Rha.
The river goddess REO Rheia Rhea was present
in the Amu Darya and in the Rha, ancient Volga.
Her sons were TYR Sseyr Sseus Zeus, ruler of
the first IE homeland on the banks of the Amu
Darya, Poseidon, originally the god of rivers,
and Hades, personifying the gold and copper-tin
mines in the Alai mountains, along the Vakhsh,
his dog guarding the precious ores
In my previous thread (which was deliberately bloated
and ruined by several members of sci.lang who were
neither willing nor able to go for my above test cases)
I prepared a story of the first Indo-Europen homeland
on the banks of the Amu Darya. Telling this story
along the arrow of time will be the aim of my new
Magdalenian thread.
I liked this one.
> I just can't work in peace!
How do "stalkers" prevent you from typing as much as you want?
A good novel tells a story, a bad novel piles claim
on claim in flashbacks. Rendering a historical
hypothesis in the form of a story, told along the
arrow of time, has the advantage of revealing gaps
and implausibilities. While preparing my story of
the first Indo-European homeland on the banks
of the Amu Darya, I realized that my identification
of Medusa can't be quite correct, 'Perseus' didn't
help the farmers on the ancient mouthing of the
Amu Darya into the Aral Sea cope with their river,
he must have helped them cope with the Aral Sea.
In the late 1990s I identified the three Gorgo sisters
as the Black Sea and Caspian Sea and Aral Sea,
equating the latter with Medusa of the snake hairs.
What can these snakes be? Yesterday, while still
looking after a beautiful flat on the river, I watched
a tv documentary on fish in the Caspian Sea
and saw pictures of natural channels in marshes
along the shore. Well, these could have been
the 'hairs' of Medusa, the Aral Sea and the former
marshes with natural channels along the shore,
leading brackish water, and perhaps infested with
snakes. The salt of the brackish water must have
been a problem for the early farmers, and 'Perseus'
helped them dividing the irrigation system fed by
the Amu Darya from the channels in the marshes
fed by the saline water of the Aral Sea. Perseus
beheaded Medusa, and everybody who saw her
head became stone. The wife of Lot in the Bible
became a salt pillar, which led me to the role of
brackish water in the case of Medusa and the
Aral Sea. I will have to study the Paleo-limnology
of the area some more, the changing level of the
Aral Sea, the shifting course of the Amu Darya.
Or then I could tell my story in such a way that
it will allow one day to precisely locate the real,
historical 'Perseus' in time.
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"Karakalpakstan: A Hidden Gem of a Land"
Quote:
Kuttimuratov was driving near the Amu Darya River
with friends when he saw a piece of large driftwood:
"That is her, that's the Amu Darya." The medusa-like
hair adds to the face he carved, as indeed just north
of Nukus, the Amu Darya's delta slithers like snakes
into the Aral Sea. That is until the Soviet Union began
growing cotton in vastly unsustainable quantities in
the desert, sucking the life from the Amu Darya and
shrinking the Aral Sea until it became too saline to
support its native fish.
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***
He's just a failure, an incompetent jerk and a social reject craving
for some repair in his shattered narcissism.
A.
How many times must you be repeated that this is not your own thread,
you retard?
A.
Zeus overcame the titans with the help of the three
Cyclops, each of them commanding one Hundred-
hander. I read Cyclops as CO OC LOP, attentive
mind CO right eye OC enveloping wall LOP, naming
a fortified settlement protected by an eveloping wall
LOP, along the wall guards who look out with open
eyes OC, and in the center the ruler of the attentive
mind CO. The most famous Cyclop was Polyphem
'Much Famous', resembling more a wooded hilltop
than a man who eats bread, Homeric symbol of Troy,
his one eye the acropolis, his body downtwon Troy
VIIa, providing protected shelter for 5,000 to 10,000
people. The Cyclops who helped TYR Sseyr Sseus
Zeus overcome the titans would have been three
strategically placed fortresses allowing to control
the coming from and going to the Hindu Kush,
the Pamir, and the Alai Mountains. I propose
Termez or Termiz, Kunduz, and Kurgan. Each
fortress would have been built inside a palisade,
and would have been large enough for some one
hundred archers, one Hundred-hander, counting
right hands. The region controlled by Termez and
Kunduz and Kurgan would have been the very
heart of the first Indo-European homeland.
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Let me estimate. Each stronghold housed 100 archers,
plus 100 nobles, plus 100 people who carried out
a variety of jobs, all in all 300 people inside a stronghold
of the diameter 60 meters. Outside the palisade 400
farmers, 200 hunters and fishermen, and 100 others.
All in all 1,000 people per stronghold, 3,000 people
for the three strongholds, tripled for the villagers
in between, a total of 9,000 first Indo-Europeans.
As their power and wealth increased, they would have
expanded toward the Aral Sea, then to the Uralic steppes
east of the Rha / Volga, second IE homeland, then to
the Pontic steppes, third IE homeland. The first Indo-
Europeans would have spoken a local dialect of Late
Magdalenian, the language of the titan Japetos,
Japhet in the Bible, which then spread quickly over
wide parts of Eurasia on the Magdalenian substratum.
Also the stories of the first Indo-Europeans of Termez
and Kunduz and Kurgan spread and were adopted
to other regions, for example of Greece, but even
Africa. The nobles of the three strongholds would
have been called ADI OC CO, noble wealthy ADI
right eye OC attentive mind CO, the noble and wealthy
ones who look about them with an attentive mind.
When the story of the taming of floods and river
tsunamis along the Vakhsh were projected to Africa,
ADI OC CO became Aithiopia Ethiopia, imagined
to be the southern margin of the earth, involving the
same sound shift as in the case of AD TOR OC CO
Mycenaean atoroqo Greek anthropos, toward AD
noise and commotion as made by a bull, then bull
in motion TOR, right eye OC attentive mind CO,
facing a bull in motion with open eyes and a focused
mind, to take the bull by his horns, to cope with fate,
ancient formula for the conditio humana.
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Story of the first Indo-Europeans, a scetch
part 1) Titans, Cronus and Rhea, their children
The Amu Darya would have been the first Indo-European
homeland. The Titans lived in the mountains on the upper
course of the river system, Alai Mountains, Pamir and
Hindu Kush. Cronus presided over the mountains,
his wife Rhea over the rivers. Their children lived in the
mountain valleys, hidden from each other and the world,
swallowed by Cronus, as it were. When Rhea got pregnant
again, she gave Cronus a stone to swallow, fled toward
the Aral Sea, and gave birth to Zeus, Magdalenian TYR
emphatic Middle Helladic Sseyr Doric Sseus Homeric Zeus.
TYR was raised on the ancient mouthing of the Amu Darya
and became the ruler of what is now called Lowland of
Turan. A heavy earthquake in the mountains caused many
of the nomads to leave their valleys and head for the plain
- Gaia the Earth making Cronus give back the swallowed
children, so to say - while TYR wandered upward from
the Aral Sea. They met where the rivers Vakhsh and Panj
join, and founded a union, remembered as the overcoming
of Cronus. TYR means overcomer, as verb to overcome
in the double sense of rule and give. TYR and his people
settled in the fertile plain, their main dwellings having
been Termez on the Amu Darya, Kunduz on the river
coming from the Hindu Kush, and Kurgan on the Vakhsh.
They were the first Indo-Europeans.
(to be continued)
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> very well organized
> alias yangg is an amateur linguist.
> ***
>
> I'm not amateur. I have a PhD in linguistics, two books and about 20
> published articles around the world.
Minor question of word usage. Amateur means not paid. Have you ever
actually made some money from being a linguist ?
I know this is a quibble and the meaning of the word "amateur" is
changing. I am curious just how an unbiased person would red this
exchange.
>
> Minor question of word usage. Amateur means not paid. Have you ever
> actually made some money from being a linguist ?
>
> I know this is a quibble and the meaning of the word "amateur" is
> changing. I am curious just how an unbiased person would red this
> exchange.
***
In French amateur would rather mean "half competent" rather than
"unpaid"
Anyway I've not make much money from being a skilled linguist, even
when measured against low expectations...
A.
Story of the first Indo-Europeans, a sketch
part 3) Prometheus
Prometheus was the collective name for the Afghan miners
who had a center at Kabul and co-operated with the mineral
miners dubbed Centaurs who transported also ores to
Lake Sistan or Lake Hamun. The ore miners found silver
and gold and copper in Afghanistan. They ventured over the
Hindu Kush down into the valley of the Amu Darya and up
the valley of the Vaksh, where they found copper associated
with tin. Smelting copper-tin they obtained bronze. Some of
the mineral miners with their donkeys and ponies followed
the ore miners and transported the freshly cast bronze all
the way over the Hindu Kush and down to Lake Hamun
in the Sistan Basin, the region ruled by the dynasty of wise
Cheiron. The Centaurs were a rough band. Transporting
the precious materials over the high mountains and over
such distances was a risky business. They were good
archers, and had to be that in order to defend their cargo,
their animals, and their own lives. Cheiron protected them
in every way he could. But the Amu Darya is far from the
Sistan Basin, and the Centaurs had to cross the core land
of the first Indo-European community, Termez Kunduz
Kurgan. Meanwhile Prometheus looked out for ever richer
veins and loads, guided by an analogy: the veins in the
body lead to the heart and liver, so may it be that the veins
of ore lead to equivalents of the heart and liver inside the
mountains? to the richest loads imaginable? They were
successful miners. More and more Centaurs followed
them into the Vaksh River Valley. Conflicts with the new
union arose, and made TYR Sseyr Sseus Zeus ask
Prometheus for tributes. As he declined, some of the
local guards dubbed 'eagles', mountaineers watching
out from the hills, well trained and experienced in
climbing rocky slopes and reaching difficult places,
blocked the way of Prometheus, of the ore miners,
and took away their part from the bronze they smelted
- chaining Prometheus to the Caucasus and picking
on his liver, as it were. The ancient Caucasus was the
entire long and high mountain range from the modern-
day Caucasus in the west to the Himalayas in the east.
Next time: Perseus
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Story of the first Indo-Europeans, a sketch
part 3) Prometheus
Prometheus was the collective name for the Afghan miners
who had a center at Kabul and co-operated with the mineral
miners dubbed Centaurs who transported also ores to
Lake Sistan or Lake Hamun. The ore miners found silver
and gold and copper in Afghanistan. They ventured over the
Hindu Kush down into the valley of the Amu Darya and up
the valley of the Vaksh, where they found copper associated
with tin. Smelting copper-tin they obtained bronze. Some of
the mineral miners with their donkeys and ponies followed
the ore miners and transported the freshly cast bronze all
the way over the Hindu Kush and down to Lake Hamun
in the Sistan Basin, the region ruled by the dynasty of wise
Cheiron. The Centaurs were a rough band. Transporting
the precious materials over the high mountains and over
such distances was a risky business. They were good
archers, and had to be that in order to defend their cargo,
their animals, and their own lives. Cheiron protected them
in every way he could. But the Amu Darya is far from the
Sistan Basin, and the Centaurs had to cross the core land
of the first Indo-European community, Termez Kunduz
Kurgan. Meanwhile Prometheus looked out for ever richer
veins and loads, guided by an analogy: the veins in the
body lead to the heart and liver, so may it be that the veins
of ore lead to equivalents of the heart and liver inside the
mountains? to the richest loads imaginable? They were
successful miners. More and more Centaurs followed
them into the Vaksh River Valley. Conflicts with the new
union arose, and made TYR Sseyr Sseus Zeus ask
Prometheus for tributes. As he declined, some of the
local guards dubbed 'eagles', mountaineers watching
out from the hills, well trained and experienced in
climbing rocky slopes and reaching difficult places,
blocked the way of Prometheus, of the ore miners,
and took away their part from the bronze they smelted
- chaining Prometheus to the Caucasus and picking
on his liver, as it were. The ancient Caucasus was the
entire long and high mountain range from the modern-
day Caucasus in the west to the Himalayas in the east.
Next time: Perseus
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> Story of the first Indo-Europeans, a sketch
> On Sep 23, 2:08 am, DKleinecke <dkleine...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Minor question of word usage. Amateur means not paid. Have you ever
>> actually made some money from being a linguist ?
>>
>> I know this is a quibble and the meaning of the word "amateur" is
>> changing. I am curious just how an unbiased person would red this
>> exchange.
> ***
>
> In French amateur would rather mean "half competent" rather than
> "unpaid"
I think it pretty much does in English as well. Most academics
sometimes find themselves having to give lectures on things outside
their specialist subjects, and if I say, for example, "I'm a bit of an
amateur when it comes to lipid metabolism" no one would suppose that
I'm not going to get paid for that particular lecture. On the other
hand if Franz managed to earn a Swiss franc by selling an article about
his Magdalenian fantasies to a local newspaper that wouldn't affect his
status as an amateur in virtually all domains.
--
athel
'Amateur' is the opposite of 'professional', and 'professional' has a
complex meaning. Whether one's paid and/or skilled and/or recognised by a
union are all factors. Sometimes, one of those factors can be enough to
in/validate the classification.
Arnaud Fournet alias yangg is an amateur linguist. His claim
to fame was a paper he wrote with Allan Bomhard, a real linguist.
However, Allan Bomhard retracted his contribution: "The Hurrian
project was challenging when I was working on it with Arnaud,
but, as time has passed and I have had a chance to think more
on these issues, I have changed my mind. I no longer support
any of the theories advanced or conclusions drawn in that work.
/ Allan" Which is the reason why Arnaud Fournet of the warped
soul takes revenge on me, stalking me and leading a smear
campaign. He popped up in sci.lang blindly attacking people with
an unprecedented outburst of faecal language. And he posted
hideous messages to cybalist admin. He feels entitled to write
the ugliest messages, considering himself a victim. He turns
himself into a capital study case of online mobbing and stalking.
(If Arnaud Fournet were a scholar deserving his PhD in linguistics
and if he had valid new ideas not yet accepted by the linguistic
community he would use the fantastic facility of the Usenet
and freedom of sci.lang to propose his ideas and develop them,
but the nonsense he told me - Mycenaean being older than
Middle Helladic, sound 'laws' being not just rules but actual laws
holding one hundred per cent - and the way he behaves online
- confounding scatology with scientific arguments - make it clear
that even 'amateur' is too nice a term for him, and that he has
no valid ideas worth being developed.)
Story of the first Indo-Europeans, a sketch
part 4) Perseus
Perseus was born on the ancient river delta of the
Amu Darya but raised and educated on Lake Hamun
or Sistan, the region ruled by the dynasty of wise
Cheiron. Perseus learned all about irrigation and
building techniques from the clever engineers.
As a young man he returned to the southern shore
of the Aral Sea and applied what he had learned
from Cheiron's men. He built a series of dams
between the marshes of the shore and the fields,
dividing the snake-infested marshes from the arable
soil, using the water of the Amu Darya for a system
of irrigation canals on the save side of the dam.
His first deed was remembered in folklore and
then mythology as beheading of Medusa. When
the summer wind Afghanetz blew over the dams,
the local dwellers imagined a winged horse flying
over their heads, along the Amu Darya to the Hindu
Kush - the winged horse known as Pegasus. While
building the dams and canals, gold nuggets were
found in the soil and river beds, releasing a first
gold rush. People headed for the Alai Mountains
and washed gold in the river beds, remembered
as the giant Chrysaor whose name originally
combined chrysos 'gold' and sao 'I sieve' but
was later modified to the combination of chrysos
'gold' and aor 'sword', he of the golden sword.
The original giant personified the gold washers
in the Alai Mountains. Perseus followed them and
protected them from floods and river tsunamis
of the Vakhsh (released by failing landslide dams)
by building barrages out of poles he made from
spruce. He went so far as to plant pine cones
dubbed 'dragon teeth' and made them grow into
carefully tended forests. Furthermore he installed
a warning system, horns blown by day and fires
lit by night, also flashes of sun light directed with
copper mirrors covered in gold, sent from station
to warning station along the Vakhsh. Finally,
Perseus built three strongholds, one at Termez,
one at Kunduz, and one at Kurgan, round palisades
inhabited by one hundred nobles, one hundred
archers, and one hundred workers and servants,
while some seven hundred people lived outside the
palisade of each stronghold, farmers, fishermen,
hunters, and guards. The settlements with the
elevated strongholds were dubbed Cyclopes,
one eyed giants, while the one hundred archers
per stronghold were called Hundred-handers
(right hands). At the three key strong-places lived
3000 people, 6000 more between Termez and
Kunduz and Kurgan. The region was watched over
by three kinds of guards dubbed 'dogs' and 'horses'
and 'eagles' - the 'dogs' guarded the strongholds
and villages, the 'horses' guarded the banks of
the rivers, and the 'eagles' watched out from
the hills. The villages along the connecting rivers
were also protected by fires burning in the night,
visible from the neighboring villages. If the fire
shone, all was right, but when a fire went out,
helpers came to the rescue. Hides held next to
the fires and moved in certain patterns allowed to
send signals from village to village. The fires were
called PIR SAI, fire PIR life SAI, Fires of Life,
wherefrom Perseus. The clever organisation
of the core of the first Indo-European homeland
allowed a relatively small population of an estimated
9000 people to take over the entire drainage basin
of the Amu Darya.
Next time: battle of the Laphits and Centaurs
he should form his own Google Group. he can reject anyone that is fool
enough to join, and his posts would be archived by Google, as long as
Google archives, since he doesn't trust websites to last as long. and
he could capitalize letters as much as he wants and claim to be doing
to doing linguistics.
That's a very good idea, but I don't suppose he'll take you up on it.
It might make it obvious even for him that no one is interested in his
"work".
--
athel
> Why do the barren minds feel they must make
> the rules? Either go for one of my four Magdalenian
> test cases, or keep away from my thread.
There are no "rules," and it is not "your" thread.
As someone just pointed out, since for some reason your own website
isn't good enough for you, you could start your own google group.
There's a button for doing so on the "Groups Home" page.
Who went for one of my test cases with scientific
arguments? If someone did, Yusuf, you can certainly
repeat the best argument. I mean scientific argument,
not a verdict dropped from above.
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I did research on that Peter T. Daniels and found out
that he posted as grammatim and as Peter a total
of nearly 48,000 messages, mostly quips of a few lines.
Luckily for him this is an unmoderated group. The header
of his messages alone are more than all I ever posted
and will post until June 24, 2035, when I shall pass
away, as my astrologer predicted.
> > Who went for one of my test cases with scientific
> > arguments? If someone did, Yusuf, you can certainly
> > repeat the best argument. I mean scientific argument,
> > not a verdict dropped from above.
>
> I remember people answering your arguments for "the furry one" and
> "Zeus / Deus / Theos", but you didn't like the result.
Yes, I remember that too, and I can give a more precise
answer. I had been told time and again that my views
are not the same as the ones given in the textbooks
and therefore wrong. That is a meta-argument, not
a scientific argument. Textbooks are not the Quran,
the word of God-given truth. The only one who gave
a halfway scientific answer to my first test case,
bear as the furry one versus bear as the brown one,
was Harlan Messinger, but he delivered it in such
a convoluted way that I had to ask back for two years
what he really means until he finally conceded that
English bear might actually go back to a root meaning
fur. The vast majority of you don't like Magdalenian.
In all those years you could have formulated a counter-
argument, a scientific argument, but all you do is spout
invectives and insults and ad hominems and refer to
textbooks and drop verdicts from above. Telling me
that I should consult textbooks is not enough. You
have to bring up better arguments for your view
or the PIE view than I bring up for my Magdalenian
test cases. How many times did I tell this? always
in vain. When notorious James Harris published
yet one more version of his prime sieve and proof
of Fermat's Last Conjecture / Theorem in sci.math,
a knowledgeable mathematician went through his
lines and showed where he went wrong. You can't
do that because mathematics is based on actual
laws but linguistics isn't, and I show that to you,
and you don't like it, but you can't change it,
no matter how many yanggs pop up in sci.lang
and erupt in scatological fits. If you believe there
was a scientific argument against my view in one
of my test cases, you have to remember it verbatim,
and tell me. You have to do at least that much.
Everything else it not scientific. Most of what is
going on in sci.lang is a never ending meta- and
meta-meta- and meta-meta-meta-discussion.
Most of you are unable and unwilling of leading
a scientific discussion on the scientific level.
On meta-levels most of you feel omnipotent,
but when you should argue on the scientific level
most of you fail.
Of course I never posted as different individuals. Neither my name nor
my email identification has changed in all this time.
> of nearly 48,000 messages, mostly quips of a few lines.
And that is how the culture of newsgroups works. Newsgroups are not
the place for interminable essays (and endless repetitions) -- the
venue for such things is _blogs_.
> You
> have to bring up better arguments for your view
> or the PIE view than I bring up for my Magdalenian
> test cases. How many times did I tell this? always
> in vain.
No, that is not how it works. It is up to the challenger to _disprove_
a hypothesis, not up to the supporters to "prove" a hypothesis,
something that cannot be done. (That is how _science_ works.) If the
challenger then offers what he thinks is a better hypothesis, he must
indicate what it would take to _disprove_ it, and then see whether
anyone can find the disproof.