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Re: Re: Re: VMs: Criteria for a successful solution



If copied, it might be a "Final Draft" or "Near Final" copy. I distinctly remember seeing at least one very clear correction in the text. With missing labels towards the end of the manuscript, I wonder if it was ever finally completed. I sense that the VMS was meant to be long lasting and held in high regard, like a bible.



Regards,
Dana Scott





From: "Jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: VMs: Criteria for a successful solution
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:12:35 -0500

Hello John,
======= At 2004-08-16, 14:25:00 you wrote: =======

>- If it's gibberish, it's impossible to make a mistake, although this
>argument works less well in the face of "constructed gibberish."  Against
>this, I think it's felt, e.g., by Rugg, that if it is gibberish, it is
>highly constructed gibberish.

Well, it certainly cannot be "unconstructed" gibberish, the statistics shows it is not
purely random, not even haphazard random.
>
>- The VMs a is a clear copy, or a second copy, most likely by the original
>author(s), since a latter day copiest would be less practiced (at first),
>resulting in errors and awkwardly formed letters.


Right, but I have the feeling that even when copying, it would be difficult to avoid
few mistakes and subsequent erasures or deletions. But I might be wrong here.
>
>- A third possibility is that the text is not elaborately enciphered,
Right again - and there is of course another option: when mistakes were discovered bu author,
they were cunningly left uncorrected. Or maybe he did not discover any mistakes? :-)


But seriously, the author's method cannot hardly be that sophisticated or that complicated
as we assume. As Kahn and Manly pointed out, there must be something simple we
still cannot see. But if there is a clue in the manuscript, where should we look? ( only a
rhetorical question, of course :-).


Jan
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