Sentences with phrase «not tautologies»

Hartshorne must argue, in this case, that p is true; and p is not a tautology.

Nevertheless, while each of the «pieces» of this construction comprises equally simply things like D = vt and F = GMm / r ^ 2 the final prediction is not a tautology.

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.

Way too often, the argument is made that lawyers are the ones with the knowledge and experience to really understand what needs to happen, and further that lawyers are the only ones who can understand the really important points that only they are equipped to make (wait — isn't that a tautology?).

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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.

In this sense, everything that emerges from non-existence is true, but this statement is a tautology and does not say anything new.

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».

Obviously, that tautology does not satisfy.

This, says Ramsey, is not a platitude but «a significant tautology labeling a commitment.»

Christ - centered tautologies don't help us here.

Science does not try to explain anything «before existence,» because it's considered a tautology: an unanswerable question within the sphere of human understanding.

I intended my «tautologies» to make clear what the issue about God's existence was, not to decide it.

Both the premises and the conclusion are surely empirical, but the tautology (2) is not.

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

I hate to say this, because it sounds like a tautology but it isn't.

To say, «all the people you are allowed to vote for are subject to popular vote» is a tautology, but doesn't answer the question, «who is really in charge?»

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.

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

I also do nt think the implication was that teachers are the cause of statistical tautologies, rather that the nature of the distribution is meaningful, especially if teachers or district... Read More

• express yourself; • show your competence; • be interactive, try to entertain a reader — not to overload; • follow your writing clarity; • do not plagiarize (rephrase, just in case); • do not use tautology, it sounds awful.

I may debate whether the Voyage is unique or not, but Michael should avoid tautology like «entirely unique».

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.

You may not find beauty or coherence, but that amounts to a tautology.

Similarly, do you think a man who goes every day to his job at an accounting firm, adds up beans all day long, watches popular movies when they come out, goes to his childrens» games on the weekend and has the occasional beer while cooking burgers on the grill in the backyard while not contemplating the mysteries of the universe or the necessarily self - referencing tautologies used to explain the existence of consciousness is enjoying life any less than you?

Yurshansky takes care to widen the gaps of visual description so that the viewer has room to project their own meaning onto each piece, in order to ensure that the works do not enforce their own tautology.

Just because v = D / t doesn't mean that all predictions based on Newton's law of motion are tautologies.

«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).

I can't handle philology, tautology, philosophy and religion all mixed up into Rainbow Coloured Warmer Spew.

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-...]

-- 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)

Does this not reduce Bayesian estimates to tautology?

That's not just tautology.