Subject: Re: enclaves on stamps
Date: Sep 13, 2004 @ 05:34
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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> It's not a fantasy, it's common sense. The maps and
> borders were thoroughly done over in 1978. The claves
> were left as they were. You can't just assume
> something goes away because you yourself want it to go
> away. What real evidence do you have saying they no
> longer exist?
> By your reasoning, anyone could say that the other 4
> exclaves no longer exist either because they haven't
> been "heard from" since the date of the last map
> showing them. If that is 2002 (hypothetically), does
> that mean we should question whether they've existed
> for the last 2 years? (No.)
>
> --- aletheiak <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>
> > exactly
> > you have finally hit it in your afterword here
> > maestro
> >
> > & the tripoints sometimes do indeed move about etc
> > so we only know for sure what was supposedly true at
> > the time
> > they were last visited &or reported etc
> > so i absolutely agree with you about the tripoints &
> > claves equally
> >
> > & thats one reason for & benefit of reporting on
> > them repeatedly
> >
> > & you have proved these particular crumbs existed
> > circa 1976 &
> > possibly as recently as 1978
> > tho i believe your logic is still questionable there
> > in msg 15345
> > hahaha
> > however unworth questioning just to reduce by 2 the
> > 28 years
> > during which i still do believe they havent been
> > heard from
> >
> > & in the meantime whole governments & nation states
> > have
> > come & gone ferociously several times all thru there
> > which do in fact now recognize & mention all the
> > well known
> > classmates of these maybeclaves but have apparently
> > never
> > mentioned these crumbs during at least 26 of these
> > 28 years
> >
> > so i am content to believe them real as of 1976 or
> > maybe 1978
> > & looking forward to more & fresher data
> > via whatever aspiring clavoscopist provides it
> >
> > & i have just been responding to your claim in
> > message 15272
> > of what you think we have
> > by telling you i know we once had them but i
> > seriously question if
> > we still have them
> >
> > i am not stuck in your fantasy tho
> >
> > & anyway time will tell
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Michael
> > Kaufman
> > <mikekaufman79@y...> wrote:
> > > By the same token, the tripoint could have
> > > moved...maybe the cartogrophers just didn't know
> > about
> > > it. The AMAZGE tripoint could have moved (or even
> > > ceased to exist!) - it's just that it wasn't shown
> > or
> > > said, "if something isnt shown or said it only
> > means
> > > it wasnt shown or said not that it was or wasnt a
> > > fact."
> > >
> > > --- aletheiak <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > thanx
> > > > good idea specifically
> > > > & good for the aspiring clavoscopist to be so
> > > > diligent in any case
> > > >
> > > > but one cant presume the cartographers knew
> > anything
> > > > other
> > > > than what they actually drew or wrote
> > > >
> > > > if something isnt shown or said
> > > > it only means it wasnt shown or said
> > > > not that it was or wasnt a fact
> > > > & not that anyone had any specific inkling about
> > it
> > > > or even any
> > > > general awareness of it
> > > >
> > > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G.
> > > > McManus"
> > > > <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > > > > Mike D. asked:
> > > > >
> > > > > > if the claves were discontinued
> > > > > > their borders couldnt & wouldnt have been
> > > > redrawn but only
> > > > > > eliminated or forgotten
> > > > > >
> > > > > > would the mapmakers have just scrawled a big
> > > > purple cross
> > > > > > over each clave to let us know in that case
> > > > > >
> > > > > > or exactly how would they redraw something
> > that
> > > > had
> > > > completely
> > > > > > vanished
> > > > > > short of erasing it
> > > > > > which they couldnt do
> > > > >
> > > > > I the addition of a purple overprint was the
> > only
> > > > means of
> > > > revision available,
> > > > > the cartographers would likely have added a
> > text
> > > > notation in
> > > > purple that
> > > > > such-and-such claves no longer existed. I
> > suggest
> > > > that you go
> > > > back and check
> > > > > the margins and legend of the map for such
> > purple
> > > > text.
> > > > >
> > > > > Lowell G. McManus
> > > > > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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