Re: VMs: Epibrating Cerebrating

["jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Dennis,

the response of public is not necessary the same as "kantata" of Mr. 
Rolan, who  is  apparently trying to warm his soup on Rugg's 
backburner. The title  "cerrebrating" of course is a typo, not a hint about 
author's "cerebrum", I  hope. 
  
One quote however got  my attention: 'We must pay attention to the 
politics and provenance of "fact," the process of "expert reasoning," as 
Rugg puts it.'
Now as far as I know,  it is hard to establish what is Mr. Ruggs expert 
on -  he claims it is the cryptography, but he did not even  provide the 
acceptable method how  his famous grill (no offence, Mr. Cardan!) 
could  successfully generate the VM look-alike.

As much  as an other typo ( "better pisition") will tempt me,  I will not 
comment on that one :-). 

All jokes aside,  the lack of response of the VM group to Rugg's 
challenge are putting  our  group in rather strange light, but of course 
"blessed are the  meek", as another manuscript says,

Jan
  
=======  You wrote:  
>    I've been wondering what response Rugg's article would bring from 
>the public.  According to its uniform standards of editorial judgment, 
>our favorite publication printed this letter to the editor in the 
>November 2004 issue:
>
>-----------------------------------
>*Cerebrating Voynich*
>
>    I was delighted in Gordon Rugg's approach in "The Mystery of the 
>Voynich Manuscript."  Rugg's attention to the history of the acceptance 
>of certain views underlines the social and personal forces that have 
>shaped the sciences. 
>   
>    We must pay attention to the politics and provenance of "fact," the 
>process of "expert reasoning," as Rugg puts it.  Increasingly, we must 
>join the perspectives of available disciplines: biology, psychology, 
>history, linguistics and many other fields.  Only such cooperation can 
>pry truth from process and allow us in some small way to escape our wiring.
>
>    Certainly, "forms of sensibility," as Kant put it, affect our 
>knowledge. Because we are in a better pisition than any other age to 
>examine such forms and categories, we should do so in a more systematic 
>way.  I hope reliance on such investigations will become a larger 
>element in our scientific literature. 
>
>                                  John J. Ronan
>                                  Magnolia, Mass.
>
>----------------------------
>
>    To quote an old and bad joke, "Hmm.  I wonder what he meant by *that*?"
>
>Dennis
>
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