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Ad+dressing Future Scholars On the morning of May 7, 2003, Doğan Türker met a dozen bright postgraduate students in their “Psychology of Learning” class at the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences in Maltepe, Ankara. He was there as a guest speaker invited by Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Ataman, a faculty member of Gazi University . Doğan Türker presented a summary of his work on the root syllables of Turkish and explained why and how our most ancient Orkhun stamp-glyphs should be considered for solving the inert problems of that academically debated but inconclusive theory, known as the Universal Mother Tongue, by treating it with his original method of aphonetic & provisual analysis, and not at all by submitting it to the accepted rules of linguistics and phonetic classification (*). Enlivened by glyphs scribbled on the blackboard, his lecture covered the decipherment of some words, like at.ob @ ob.al, ob.al.okh, and id.okh-khu : ış.ng : y(ay).eri > dictionary, all of them implying that some preordained and innate biogenetic element must exist for this surprising unity of human languages which are presently considered unrelated to each other. As his comments were received with interest by the candidates for a Master’s or a Doctoral degree, the class period lasted in excess of one hour.
Scientific reasoning is based on deductive or inductive logic following the axiomatic methodology of the Greeks. Recently Goedel has proved to mathematicians with masterly revelation that deductive logic must be incomplete since questions can be legitimately asked without apparent answers, inductive logic seeking to generalise a theory from known facts can never be wholly true since it cannot completely include the future or evidence beyond its experience. Logic is unreliable. Many fundamental discoveries are made by practical inventors unencumbered by scientific training. Drake, W. Raymond, Gods and Spacemen in the Ancient East; Signet Books, NAL, N.Y. 1973, p. 12-13.
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