Re: Terminology question
From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 6 Sep 2006 21:16:30 -0700
Message-ID: <1157602589.942020.183300_at_e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>
Date: 6 Sep 2006 21:16:30 -0700
Message-ID: <1157602589.942020.183300_at_e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>
pamelafluente_at_libero.it wrote:
> 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.
> >
> 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
Well, I was not familiar with that use of the word.
However, having read that page, it appears that
definitions are not tautological under that definition
either.
Marshall