Sentences with phrase «by tautology»

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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».

(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.

If something is important enough to be a human right, by calling it fundamental one is either guilty of tautology and thus not adding anything or one creates confusion by saying that there can be human rights which are not fundamental.

The result is a tautology: success is the sum of the parts; the parts are by default the components of success.

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.

«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).

-- only energy balance matters (here comes the school of people saying that the system is trivially simple because it exchanges energy only by radiation)-- only «equilibrium» matters (here comes the school of people who compare the system to a small ball slightly moved away from its equilibrium position inside a spherical bowl)-- space doesn't matter (this is a tautology because if a 3D system can be reduced to 1D and still predicted, then the «neglected» 2 D obviously didn't matter)-- from the above follows also necessarily that everything that happens in the real 3D world can only be noise (here comes the school of people who say that everything averages out)

That's a tautology, and Dr. Curry adds literally nothing by closing with arguing against something that is undue.