tautologies

• “The point is sometimes overlooked, because it might be thought that, if the propositions of logic are tautologies, that is only because we happen to have chosen a language in which tautologies are produced when certain propositions are combined.”

  A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy

• “I know that is not what people think when they use the expression “the workers are being exploited!” — people don’t usually speak in tautologies.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf

• “The Austrian philosopher wrote it to illustrate how linguistic devices such as tautologies and contradictions represent a kind of debasement of language: rather than reinforce some logical system or reveal something to us about the world, they break down as constructed figures, and actually strip away meaning.”

  Portland Mercury

• “Carl goes with caricatures, you go with tautologies ... and as far as I can tell my point remains.”

  Hungering for some shallow analysis of Pope Benedict XVI?

• “But, he added, I must be sure to telephone the customer service department — surely the ne plus ultra of tautologies — to ascertain what has happened to my money.”

  Fraud

• “And yet the DJED sculptures communicate as effectively as minimalist tautologies as they do as maximalist mythopoetics.”

  The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God

• “And what did you mean by the parenthesized “tautologies”?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Mojave Cross Removed

• “Godel showed that all “proofs” are self-referencing (tautologies), including mathematical proofs.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Mojave Cross Removed

• “Kamal: Godel showed that all “proofs” are self-referencing (tautologies), including mathematical proofs.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Mojave Cross Removed

• “You just defend the side that wins by deploying tautologies.”

  It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog

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