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Re: Terminology question

From: <pamelafluente_at_libero.it>
Date: 6 Sep 2006 15:41:04 -0700
Message-ID: <1157582464.684970.19670@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>


Hi dear. Clearly, I used "rhetoric", not "logic" definition, which is the most widely understood usage of this word...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_%28rhetoric%29

-P

Marshall ha scritto:

> pamelafluente_at_libero.it wrote:
> >
> > After all a definition is always tautological because based on other
> > definitions.
>
> Definitions are not tautological. Tautologies are true; definitions
> are neither true nor false.
>
>
> Marshall
Received on Wed Sep 06 2006 - 17:41:04 CDT

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