Life and death word count in the Qur'an: Difference between revisions

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*There is no way to get 145 occurrences of the words "life" nor "death", because there are less than 145 derived nouns. So in order to get 145, nouns and verbs would have to be counted together. This still would not change the fact that the words "life" and "death" do not appear the same number of times.
*There is no way to get 145 occurrences of the words "life" nor "death", because there are less than 145 derived nouns. So in order to get 145, nouns and verbs would have to be counted together. This still would not change the fact that the words "life" and "death" do not appear the same number of times.
**Using a consisten method of counting for this "meaning word count mirtacle", that is counting words with a similar meaning, would produce 165 occurrences for "death" because all the words from the root موت have something to do with death or dying.
**Using a consistent method of counting for this "meaning word count miracle", that is counting words with a similar meaning, would produce 165 occurrences for "death" because all the words from the root موت have something to do with death or dying.
*Given the diversity of word forms for either of the two words, there perhaps exist hundreds of possible arbitrary permutations one could choose from to do the word count. That some count definitions produce interesting results is thus unremarkable. This is because with a greater number of permutations to pick from, the chance that an interesting outcome becomes possible increases (and is thus a less impressive, rare, or unlikely finding)
*Given the diversity of word forms for either of the two words, there perhaps exist hundreds of possible arbitrary permutations one could choose from to do the word count. That some count definitions produce interesting results is thus unremarkable. This is because with a greater number of permutations to pick from, the chance that an interesting outcome becomes possible increases (and is thus a less impressive, rare, or unlikely finding)


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