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Please explain to me why you think r1a is a domainant haplogroup in Southcentral Asia.

You said that I was trying to dismiss r1a in Southcentral Asia by calling it a pocket. If you look at the map that is clearly what it is. There is a corridor from Russia to Southcentral Asia that ends in a "pocket" or "bubble" or round shaped geographical area, of which the center, where r1a actually reaches more than 50% is an extremely small area compared to the European R1a.

R1a is not a Dominant Haplogroup in Southcentral Asia. There are Tribal groups that have high percentages of R1a because they do not mix with other groups in the area. There are no countries in Southcentral Asia in which R1a reaches a much higher level than 20% except Kyrgyzstan. This article is written in such a way that would imply that R1a is a dominant Haplogroup in Southcentral Asia, when in reality, R1a only accounts for a small fraction of Southcentral Asian men.Jamesdean3295

Maternal origins of European Hunter Gatherers

This may be of some value in these articles....Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers (Found in Science Express)

Nonetheless, it is intriguing to note that 82% of our 22 hunter-gatherer individuals carried clade U . ...... Europeans today have moderate frequencies of U5 types, ranging from about 1-5% along the Mediterranean coastline to 5-7% in most core European areas, and rising to 10-20% in northeastern European Uralic-speakers. . .

Kant, nous, intellect

Hi Andrew, I'm not a Kant expert, in spite of my limited knowledge of his thoughts on reason. And I don't really have time to get into an in-depth discussion of intellect vs. mind vs. nous vs. reason. However, as I understand it, for the Greeks, nous was the highest possible metaphysical ideal or form, because it was pure form, and true knowledge for the Greeks was the knowledge that revealed the form that was represented in things. John Dewey wrote a great dictionary entry about nous in 1901:

Nous : Ger. Nus (K.G.); Fr. intelligence; Ital. nous. Reason, thought, considered not as subjective, nor as a mere psychic entity, but as having an objective, especially a teleological, significance.

We owe the term, as a technical one, to Anaxagoras. He felt the need of a special principle to account for the order of the universe and so, besides the infinity of simple qualities, assumed a distinct principle, which, however, was still regarded as material, being only lighter and finer than the others. To it, however, greater activity was ascribed, and it acted according to ends, not merely according to mechanical impact, thus giving movement, unity, and system to what had previously been a disordered jumble of inert elements. Plato generalized the nous of Anaxagoras, proclaiming the necessity of a rational (teleological) explanation of all natural processes, and making nous also a thoroughly immaterial principle. As the principle which lays down ends, nous is also the Supreme Good, the source of all other ends and aims; as such it is the supreme principle of all the ideas. It thus gets an ethical and logical connotation as well as a cosmological.

On the other hand, nous gets a psychological significance as the highest form of mental insight, the immediate and absolutely assured knowledge of rational things. (Knowledge and the object of knowledge are thus essentially one.) … In man, however, the νοῦς assumes a dual form: the active (νοῦς ποιητικός), which is free and the source of all man's insight and virtue that links him to the divine (θεωρειν), and the passive (νοῦς παθητικός), which includes thoughts that are dependent upon perception, memory -- experience as mediated through any bodily organ. The distinction (of Kant, but particularly as used by Coleridge) of REASON from UNDERSTANDING (q.v.) may, however, be compared with it, but the modern distinction of the subjective from the objective inevitably gives reason a much more psychological sense than nous possessed with the ancients.

The distinction between knowledge, or understanding, and reason in Kant therefore mirrors the distinctions between is and ought, or nature and freedom. Nikolas Kompridis similarly connects the knowledge/reason distinction to the discovery in Kant of practical reason's connection to possibility vs. experience:

The great innovation of Kant’s critical philosophy was to reconceive reason as spontaneously self-determining, or self-legislating, such that reason

frames for itself with perfect spontaneity an order of its own according to ideas to which it adapts the empirical conditions and according to which it declares actions to be necessary even though they have not taken place and, maybe, never will take place.

As distinct from the rule-governed activity of the understanding (whose rule-governed spontaneity is internally consistent with its concept), reason is a possibility-disclosing activity, proposing ends (‘‘ideas’’) that go beyond what is already given empirically or normatively. This much Kant already understood, if not fully appreciated, which is why he distinguished the possibility- disclosing activity of reason from the rule-governed acquisition and exercise of knowledge: ‘‘as pure self-activity ’’ reason ‘‘is elevated even above the understanding . . . with respect to ideas, reason shows itself to be such a pure spontaneity and that it far transcends anything which sensibility can provide it.’

(Nikolas Kompridis, "The Idea of a New Beginning: A romantic source of normativity and freedom" in Philosophical Romanticism, p.34, 47)

References

1. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. and eds Paul Guyer and Allen Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) p. 541.

Teleological argument

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Linguistic maps

Hi Andrew,

I've been working on a new draft of the article North Sea Germanic (]) and I was wondering whether, if I sent you some images of academic maps, you might be able to recreate them to illustrate the geographic spread of some linguistic features? Stuff like the extent of 3rd person pronouns with "h-", monophthongization of ai and au, etc. are just screaming for maps.

Additionally, Austronesier and I have been working on a far larger draft on the Continental Germanic dialect continuum (see user:Austronesier/sandbox5) and I'm sure he would also have some requests if you'd be willing to help out!

Thanks in advance!--Ermenrich (talk) 13:54, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

@Ermenrich: the challenge, at least using the software type of method I was trying to use lately, is getting a dataset for the areas involved. I think sometimes the academic teams involved are willing to supply their own data. Otherwise it comes down to artistic image manipulation, which I don't think I'm especially good at. I think there are places on WP where requests can be offered though? Andrew Lancaster (talk) 14:59, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

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Neo-Romans

Excuse me, I didn't want to vandalised any article, if you thought that, my apologies. The point of my editions was: If visigoths, burgundians, ostrogoths, franks, etc. were germanic peoples in their origins because their lingüistic group. Once they became part of the Empire and were romanized, they should be renamed as latin (if we're focus in the language) or roman peoples (if we're focus in their culture as a whole).

If you read about the "Medieval Latins", you can see franks (alongside normans and venetians) being mentionated, despite their germanic origin, same can be say of the burgundians, goths, etc. Those peoples hadn't the same language nor culture in the III century that in the V-VIs.

Also take in mind that many of those peoples weren't unified peoples perse, but confederations of many different tribes that absorbed other that perhaps weren't even germanic-speaking, plus all the roman deserters and refugees (latin-speaking, roman-cultured).

Thanks for taking time to read it. 83.58.148.140 (talk) 20:59, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

I realized that this would be the type of thing you were thinking, but adding this type of point is not something we do by first adding information into the lead or infobox. First you'll need to get some consensus about how this can be explained and sourced in the body. A point like this will definitely need some homework to get right.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 21:04, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

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