Sentences with phrase «on tautology»

You have dismissed the role of feedback entirely and, in doing so, are insisting on a tautology for how your system so constrained will behave.

A theory that claims to explain while standing with one foot on a tautology and the other in an explanatory void is in trouble.

Not exact matches

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».

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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).

The first sentence on communication is a mere tautology.