[Re: [European contacts with India]]

[Stephen Hodge]

Jogesh Panda wrote:

Don't you think that any claim, McEvilley's or whosoever's, without
proof, is
another name for pUrvAgrahaH [prejudice or predisposition]?

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I don't recall making any claims nor does McEvilley as far as I can
see.  But no, I would call this a hypothesis which then needs to be
tested and evaulated.  If the facts -- no matter how surprising --
fit, then it can be provisionally accepted.  If not, then it remains a
hypothesis which can be discarded if shown to be completely false.
To my mind, it is just as much a prejudice to dismiss any hypothesis
without contrary proof as it it to assert a claim without proof.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge