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To: editor-surveyor
The same as everyone else's. You're in over your head if you have to ask what the meanings of basic terms are.

Dude, I think you are in over YOUR head!

Tautology From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In logic, a tautology is a statement that is true by its own definition. All true statements of logic are tautologies.

Outside logic, it sometimes means a useless tautology, that is, one that is uninformative (or in colloquial terms, stating the obvious). This definition is imprecise, as all statements are informative in some context.

In traditional grammar, a tautology is a redundancy due to superfluous qualification, often leading to the schoolboy definition of "saying the same thing twice".

241 posted on 12/28/2005 7:17:32 PM PST by phantomworker (I trust my intuition and speak my truth... Don't accuse me of your imagination!)
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To: phantomworker

Dude, (LOL) you presented a general tautology as proof of a theory, without any proof that the tautology was related to the issue.


249 posted on 12/28/2005 7:23:16 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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