EVJS 7-3 congratulations

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>From my perch in the peanut gallery:-

 

Dear Prof. Witzel,

 

Having read through everything so far but the notes, I congratulate you on

your masterful analysis of the subject. You have laid open the facts, the

standards required for competent research and analysis, and defined and

applied the tests of reasoning and research that academic expertise

requires. It is a model against which other efforts will be tested for some

time to come.

 

I especially admire the way in which you used Occam's Razor and other tests

of reasoning, as well as the facts, and moreover without the vehemence and

sting present in some of your previous discussion. (We-e-ell, the blue

pencil might have missed one or two, and the footnotes are still to be

traversed.) You have given those who disagree with your academic

conclusions very little ground on which to disagree except on the field of

research and analysis. Very well done.

 

I wonder if you, or perhaps this is more Professor Malhotra's field, could

tell us what is Occam's Razor's counterpart in Indic philosophy or other

tradition?

 

Respectfully,

 

David