Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>]

> > Peter, you need to read something on logic and scientific methods.
> > Every hypothesis can be proved false. It is especially easy with mine: 
> > just bring any examples where the use of yiqtol is meaningless if we read 
> > it either as future tense (with deictic shift, if it is contextually 
> > clear) or in idiomatic meaning.
>
> No, your hypothesis cannot be proved false if you answer every 
> counter-example by proposing a deictic shift for which there is zero 
> evidence, or else that every attested sense of a word like "would" has an 
> "idiomatic meaning" and the word in fact means something for which it is 
> never used.
I wote several times that I imagine only two possible ways to prove deictic 
shift: psychoanalysis of a writer and analyzing the context. Deictic shifts 
I mentioned are contextually plausible.
As for the idiomatic meaning, I adduce Russian and, where possible, close 
English examples that show such idioms plausible.

You really need to learn about scientific methods.

Vadim Cherny