RE: VMs: Can one "prove" a hoax?

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2/20/03 6:50:47 PM, "Don Latham" <djl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I think that even a decyphered or decoded MS cannot be proven a hoax without
>a study of the contents in context of the purported purpose of the MS (am I
>saying this right, historians?). In other words, the rules for a valid
>cipher may be satisfied, and the MS may yet be a hoax.


In other words, it could be shown to be a hoax if its
distributional properties were incompatible with a cipher,
or a language. 

But they are.

So, it can be shown to be a hoax only once we have deciphered
it.




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