ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TAUTOLOGY
From Late Latin tautologia, from Greek, from tautologos.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAUTOLOGY»
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tautology in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Power of
Tautology: The Roots of Literary Theory
Historicism occupies a central position in recent developments of literary theory, exemplified by Heidegger and Foucault.
Then it is easily shown by means of the appropriate derived truth table that the
sentence 'if either it is raining or it is not raining or it is hot then either it is raining
or it is not mining' is a tautology. Furthermore, if P and Q are the same sentence ...
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Boolean Reasoning: The Logic of Boolean Equations
5.9. The. Tautology. Problem. A basic problem in prepositional logic and Boolean
reasoning is to decide whether the members of a given set of terms (i.e., products
) sum to one. Specifically, the problem is to determine whether the relation ti(X) ...
Frank Markham Brown, 2012
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The Contingency Theory of Organizations
Contingency Theory Is Not a Tautology Contingency theory is sometimes
criticized for being a tautology, that is, for being true by definition and therefore
being circular reasoning. In logic, a tautology is an analytic statement
masquerading as a ...
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The Argument of the Tractatus: Its Relevance to Contemporary ...
This must be taken into account when considering the question of whether
tautology and contradiction can be affirmed or negated. For example, a tautology
and its apparent negation are, respectively, ip v~ P' and ' ~ (p v~P)'. If one makes
...
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Metamathematics, Machines and Gödel's Proof
Theorem 3.2.3 (tautology theorem) If A is a tautology, then \- A. Proof. We
informally sketch the proof of the tautology theorem. The sketch should serve as a
useful guide to the mechanical proof presented in the following section. Since A
is a ...
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Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Fourth Edition
PROPOSITION 1.14 (COMPLETENESS THEOREM) If a wf ^ of L is a tautology,
then it is a theorem of L. Proof (Kalmar, 1935) Assume & is a tautology, and let B\,
. . . , Bk be the statement letters in &. For any truth value assignment to B\ , . . . , 5*
...
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The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in ...
2.1 A Good Tautology Is Hard to Find Although the problem we are considering
here is usually described as the question of whether "the survival of the fittest is a
tautology," the concept of tautology has a narrower and more precise meaning in
...
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To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl The "dread of tautology,"
Melville remarks at one point in Pierre, is "the continual torment of some earnest
minds,"28 and though nowhere in Benito Cereno does tautology reach the
enervating ...
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An Introduction to Mathematical Logic
The idea, in a nutshell, is this: Certain formulas of a first-order language L have
the form of a tautology of propositional logic; every tautology of propositional
logic has a proof in the formal system P (adequacy theorem for P); all of the
axioms ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAUTOLOGY»
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tautology is used in the context of the following news items.
Friday rant: All's Fair edition
'Fair is fair' is a tautology, and I mention that just so I can use the word tautology, although it doesn't apparent really mean what I'd like it to mean. Tautology ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
The Wire and tautology is what it is, which is great
Usually, tautology — saying the same thing twice but using different words — in grammar or logic is a bad thing. On HBO's The Wire, though, where it reinforced ... «Geek, May 15»
Watch: 3-Minute 'The Wire' Tautology Supercut
Or, to give that dictionary definition a clearer example: "Murders stay murder" or "The king stays the king." Those are just a couple examples of tautology across ... «Indie Wire, May 15»
Literary discourse: Why “can be able” is wrong
The phrase under review is wrong because it amounts to TAUTOLOGY which is, to a large extent, a grammatical offence. This assertion is corroborated by the ... «GhanaWeb, Apr 15»
Sunday Times clue writing contest
As well as the use of words which repeat the meaning of others, “tautology” can mean a statement in logic that is necessarily always true, such as “my entry in ... «The Sunday Times, Apr 15»
Mental illness made the Germanwings co-pilot a victim along with …
What are we to make of Andreas Lubitz piloting a Germanwings airplane into the side of a mountain? There is an unhelpful tautology, meant to be explanatory, ... «Los Angeles Times, Apr 15»
Tautological Description-Relativistic Metaphysics IS The Theory Of …
Tautological description-relativistic metaphysics has now proven that it can do this and ... There is nothing more obvious than the tautology of that “I experience, ... «Science 2.0, Feb 15»
Why Is This Man Smiling?
The proposition “Climates change,” like the proposition “2 plus 2 equal 4,” is not an empirical hypothesis but a tautology. It is true by definition. Climate is change ... «Wall Street Journal, Jan 15»
The incoming Senate will be the least experienced since 1989
This is how it works, of course; people who are new at things have no experience, as the tautology would have it. But it means that the overall experience in the ... «Washington Post, Nov 14»
Named and shamed: Idler Academy Bad Grammar Award 2014 …
Crime: tautology and other errors. He was accused by Mr Gove of bad grammar in the House of Commons earlier this year. The tautology was 'ongoing ... «Time Out London, Apr 14»
