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  • Miguel De Beistegui corollates the principle of identity with the principle of contradiction, from "Onto-tauto-logy".

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  • Miguel De Beistegui corollates the principle of identity with the principle of contradiction, from "Onto-tauto-logy".

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  • These were, he admitted, not necessary but contingent prop - ositions, which were neither known a priori nor tauto - logical and could be denied without contradiction.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN 1968

  • [Greek: Emoi de dokousi pleionas lusai aporias hoi to tôn daimonôn genos en mesôi thentes theôn kai anthrôpôn kai tropon tina tên koinônian hêmôn sunagon eis tauto kai sunapton exeurontes; eite magôn tôn peri Zôroastrên ho logos outos esti, eite Thraikios] ....

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

  • May 4th, 2009 at 12: 46 pm its called tauto. like saying ice is cold. 20 paragraphs when 1 sentence will do.

    Cracked: All Posts 2009

  • May 4th, 2009 at 12: 46 pm its called tauto. like saying ice is cold. 20 paragraphs when 1 sentence will do.

    Cracked: All Posts 2009

  • Haud inpune quidem; nec talia paflus Ulixesy Obiitus\ e fui efl Ithacus difcrimine tauto.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • * pa'trion gar en tauto plei'osin emin sunoikein: [1484] 1

    The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870

  • I am not enough of a seaman to describe the manuvres by which we were saved, but they made the Skipper very hot (French polishing his mahogany face) and the crew very nimble, and succeeded to a marvel; for, within a few minutes of the first alarm, we had wore ship and got her off, and were all a-tauto --- which I felt very grateful for: not that I knew what it was, but that I perceived that we had not been all a-tauto lately.

    The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

  • I am not enough of a seaman to describe the manoeuvres by which we were saved, but they made the Skipper very hot (French polishing his mahogany face) and the crew very nimble, and succeeded to a marvel; for, within a few minutes of the first alarm, we had wore ship and got her off, and were all a-tauto -- which I felt very grateful for: not that I knew what it was, but that I perceived that we had not been all a-tauto lately.

    The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

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