Sentences with phrase «as tautologies»

While some critics dismissed the slogan as a tautology, [74] others considered it a call to bigotry and complained to the National Electoral Commission, which ruled it «unconstitutional» on the eve of the election.

The case for regulation is often expressed as a tautology: people will make better choices if they only have good schools from which to choose.

I'll show that the RCS technique used in the LW2005 MXD chronology eliminated high medieval values as a tautology of their method, not -LSB-...]

What I see as a tautology is to say «temperature is a an integrated process and therefore the observed trend is «normal».

Not exact matches

However, it is abundantly clear that the human race is as it is (this is no more than mere tautology), and so we can see that what may originally seem improbable is in fact the best explanation of a given circu.mstance.

When Ezra cries, «Thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve,» (Daniel 9:16) or a prayer in the Book of Nehemiah says, «Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,» (Nehemiah 9:33) or Daniel exhausts tautology in confessing, «We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,» (Daniel 9:5) we see the self - accusation which resulted from the acceptance of national misfortune not as an evidence of Yahweh's weakness in protecting his people but as proof of his inflexible righteousness.

After all, if marriage requires actions or relations unique to male — female unions, then to say that marriage is between a man and a woman is akin to a tautology, and we could perhaps regard the question of how we approach same - sex relationships as an altogether different issue.

1) Either you haven't shown this to be true or it is a «rhetorical tautology» around a «contingent enti.ty» and means nothing, i.e. if a contingent enti.ty is defined as an enti.ty which is dependent on something else, or has be caused, then by definition there would be no uncaused «contingent enti.ties».

Or consider some of Hartshorne's metaphysical statements such as «T», a tautology, or (9) or (10) or (II) or (13).

The first possibility is that the proofs for the existence of God are «empty tautologies,» like the ontological argument which Marx stated in the form: «What I conceive for myself as actual is an actual conception for me.

(Religious Language, p. 112) Mrs. Dixon's children were right, because the use of the name Yahweh gave them a personal handle by which they could think about God, but as they grow they will be ready for the further disclosure of the mystery where all that God will say is, «I am I,» which is the ultimate tautology.

The claim that those genes that «are selected for» displace those that are not is a tautology masquerading as science.

As regards the dominant climate of philosophical opinion, however, despite all the disclaimers that have been made concerning classical empiricism and positivism, the old dichotomy between a domain of sensible fact on the one hand, and sets of logical forms on the other, seems to persist and behind it the old dogma that where we have necessity we have merely tautology, and where we have fact or «experience» there is no necessity.

A logical analysis of the use and meaning of words, it was said, led to two types of language: (1) tautologies, where what is said is logically true, as in mathematics or in such statements as «a rose is a rose» or «I am I,» and (2) synthetic or nonanalytic sentences, in which the meaning is its method of verification.

As for the Cavs, I think it's more than a tautology.

Her grandiose title is not a mere tautology as some people will assume.

This next comment is a tautology as bioidentical is still bioidentical whether found in FDA approved prescriptions or in compounded preparations.

Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general.

It is not simple to write any piece of academic writing, and when it comes to creative essay, the majority of students just fall into despair as they think that they are not creative enough to write creative essay, sorry for tautology.

[7] Since 1966, he began to make performative works such as Indumenti: posaseni, calzari, bandoliera (Garments: bra, boots, cross-belt), 1966; Allestimento Teatrale (Cube di specchi) Theatrical Staging (Cube of Mirrors), 1967 - 1975; and Pavimento / Tautologia (Floor / Tautology), 1967.

In Fabro's case, it was tautology that Celant identified as a tool for eliminating «superstructures» (ideas, ideologies) and «begin [ning] again to have awareness of the present and the world».

As their colleague and sometime intellectual ally, Frank Stella, posited, «what you see is what you see,» a tautology too many people read as reductivAs their colleague and sometime intellectual ally, Frank Stella, posited, «what you see is what you see,» a tautology too many people read as reductivas reductive.

For example, if I measure v using D / t as my rocket leaves the atmosphere, it is not a tautology to predict where it will be 5 or 6 years from now so that it can drop a probe on Jupiter.

Will you allow that program to analyze your own «tautologies, verbiage, words of purely emotional import, and logical inconsistencies» and censor you as well?

«To my mind», «only justifiable discussion», «is as a pathological process», «with a view to eliminating it», stated that these are purely personal beliefs («my mind»), shown further by no evidence to back up these statements («tautologies», «a series of self - reinforcing statements that can not be disproved because they depend on the assumption that they are already correct).

Who will program it, and decide what, exactly, count as «tautologies, verbiage, words of purely emotional import, and logical inconsistencies»?

After all, the observation that I made — that a correct model of the physical world must be able to reproduce physical measurements within its domain — is so commonplace as to be nearly a tautology.

As a result, your first combination is really a tautology and the other three are combinations of two different types of governance, hence contradictory.

First you reduce his comment to a tautology, then you see it as an ethical dilemma?