Sentences with phrase «tautology in»

But then he had marvellous skill in varying his phraseology, so that no one was sensible of tautology in the expression.»

This was her route to becoming the unity candidate: uttering a political tautology in a categorical manner.

«the Good Guys have won» is a tautology in the more cynical circles.

Spinoza's principle is thus quite correct and his tautology in order; but it is also certain that he altogether evades the difficulty.

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.

«Even the most self - referential tautologies in art represent a certain ideology, education system, even class.

Not exact matches

Somehow this simple tautology is lost in the dishonest world of finance

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.

Is it a tautology, in that she's referring to people who «long for Jesus?»

But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally abstract tautology.

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

Note that in this view the self (itself) is a moral perceptor, but also that this is more than tautology.

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

The key words of religion, says Ramsey, are found in «significant tautologies.»

There is arresting tautology — but more than that — in the exclamation, «For freedom Christ has set us free» (Gal.

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

The Absolute Method, Hegel's discovery, is a difficulty even in Logic, aye a glittering tautology, coming to the assistance of academic superstition with many signs and wonders.

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.

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.

This is however a tautology, which becomes still more evident in a note, nota II: «quod hic non loquimur de pulchritudine et aliis perfectionibus, quas homines ex superstitione et ignorantia perfectiones vocare voluerunt.

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?»

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

Strikes me that that there's a serious specification issue and potential tautology involved in asserting that the «top one - third of students» get the «best one - third of teachers,» especially when the gauge of teacher quality is student performance.

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.

When states» demographic variability is similar in nature to that of the country, that fact is essentially a statistical tautology.

• 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.

So I asked her how she knew pet overpopulation was real in spite of the data and experience that proved otherwise, and she gave me the tautology that pet overpopulation is real because shelters are killing them, a logical fallacy, backward and circular reasoning, and a classic example of an after - the - fact justification.

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».

These questions are disturbing when asked in a contemporary context because of the temptation to pathologize the work, rather than deal with its contradictions and tautologies.

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.

One of the leading figures of Conceptual art, Joseph Kosuth is interested in meaning of art and its tautology.

«We are all caught in the tautology that art

Only that your specific example (v =D / t) was a tautology (and has nothing specific to do with Newton's Law in any case).

Citing your own science - denial blog in support of your claim is the essence of tautology and carries no credibility.

Such a circular tautology would earn an «F» in introductory college reasoning courses.

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)

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.

Surely the phrase «in part» must be defined rigorously to justify any sort of «action», otherwise the statement «climate changes -LSB-...] due to human activities» has little value and is practically a tautology.

In other words, your point of view is essentially tautology.

Turning to predictive power can I suggest that you can never predict more information from a set of information than is already in it (it's a tautology but an often forgotten point).