Correction: Replace "experimentation" with "empirical validation." Experimentation is not always necessary for science (My bad.).
On Nov 23, 4:40 pm, aruzinsky <[email protected]> wrote: > According tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics, linguistics is > a science. According > tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science#Scientific_method, > science requires experimentation. For your entertainment, what's > wrong with these papers about bare plurals?: > > http://people.umass.edu/partee/docs/Dependent_Plurals_Partee.pdfhttp://www.salt17.uconn.edu/Cohen.pdfhttp://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/TkxY2YzN/BPs.pdfhttp://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11.6511&rep=...http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/Talks/GenericitySeattle.ho.pdfhttp://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/sub7/abstracts/sub7_fil...http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/22/Zweig.pdfhttp://dstmte.net/teaching/ling535_fall2004/material/kinds.pdfhttp://homepages.nyu.edu/~ez255/downloads/IATL_dependent_plurals_hand... > > The authors of these papers do not report any experimentation, > therefore, these studies are not science. > > I found only one paper with an experiment: > > http://mercury.hau.ac.kr/kggc/Publications/SIGG/SIGG12/SIGG12201_HKKa... > > but it is flawed in some other ways. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
