About 60 results for "Rhetorical_tautology"

• Logical fallacies

  in the premises, hence a repetition of the premises occur, making our belief in our existence arbitrary: rhetorical circularity is the epistemic equivalent of counterfeiting. What premise then shall we use to derive our conclusion

  https://tautology.fandom.com/wiki/Logical_fallacies

• Nassim Taleb

  significant event will occur or it won't. This is the law of excluded third and a tautology, the very essence of language(Pattern or design). It becomes a mind numbing rhetorical tautology when the

  https://tautology.fandom.com/wiki/Nassim_Taleb

• Wikipedia selection article

  http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/browse_frm/thread/015c3069fc289984# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection

  https://tautology.fandom.com/wiki/Wikipedia_selection_article

• Stanford tautologies

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/selection-units/ http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/browse_frm/thread/116fe2d3ca334b90#

  https://tautology.fandom.com/wiki/Stanford_tautologies

• John Wilkins

  TableOfcontents Wilkins has some things to say about the tautology problem, especially after he realized that the whole ToEx is mired in tautological polemics. But he has to tread carefully and like Popper say one

  https://tautology.fandom.com/wiki/John_Wilkins

• Sentences have no meaning

  back to http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/TauTology http://groups.google.com/group/argunet-users/browse_thread/thread/3bd05a1ace47eafe

  https://tautology.fandom.com/wiki/Sentences_have_no_meaning

• Naming Conventions

  back http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/TauTology The idea for subscripts came from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry%27s_paradox The subscript x is used to denote that a user of the symbols design

  https://tautology.fandom.com/wiki/Naming_Conventions

• Physics equations aren't tautologies

  http://home.planet.nl/~gkorthof/kortho14.htm http://www.amazon.com/Investigations-Stuart-Kauffman/dp/0195121058

  https://tautology.fandom.com/wiki/Physics_equations_aren't_tautologies

• Aristotle

  http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/precursors/precursnatsel.html#r1 http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.2.ii.html

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• Timeline of tautologies

  EpiCurus (341- 270 B.C.). "...only those capable of life and reproduction have been preserved..." The conclusion that Epicurus came to "chance" was arbitrary, his argumentation scheme was a rhetorical tautology, meaning any conclusion would

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• Tautology Culture

  http://patriotpost.us/commentary/2011/07/05/where-are-the-jobs/....The much-touted green jobs revolution has morphed into tedious evolution with natural selection weeding out the weak. At least three green energy firms

  https://tautology.fandom.com/wiki/Tautology_Culture

• EpiCurus

  "From the Greeks to Darwin" p.60 From the Greeks to Darwin by HenryFairfieldOsborn. EPICURUS' (341-270) chief interest in philosophy was to establish the principle of natural versus that of supernatural causation. He

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• Theory of evolution

  The idea Darwin symbolically represented with Theory of evolution was a reformulation of MalThus: (Prof. Owen had the same idea it was called - Doctrine of Derivation. And before Owen we had James Hutton all the

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• Henry Fairfield Osborn

  {{{ On Nov 7, 8:08 pm, backspace stephan...@gmail.com wrote:=== rephrased=== ".... The weak and insufficiently endowed among all forms tend to drop out.....The strongest.... win..... The naturally weak fall by the wayside

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• Quotations on Natural selection

  "... In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, Natural Selection is a false term;...."- Charles Darwin http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/browse_thread/thread/5a0a46c8f9a75eec/4f47ba75ad4ba49d?show_docid=4f47ba75ad4ba49d

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• Preferential decision

  This page to be merged with Purposeless purpose and (natural means of competitive selection) (the concept discussed in this section is actually the law of excluded middle, I did not realize this at the time

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• Only sentences can be tautologies

  http://www.debate.org/forums/Science/topic/14368/ Author wrote:..Natural selection predicts that heritable variations lead to differential reproductive success.....

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• Creation.com and tautology

  lnk=raot&hl=tg http://creation.com/arguments-we-think-creationists-should-not-use "..... ‘Natural selection as tautology.’ Natural selection is in one sense a tautology (i.e., Who are the fittest? Those who survive

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• Claim of logic

  of saying the same thing twice but doesn't guarantee the truth of the proposition like a rhetorical tautology does. Meaning that a RT explains everything under all conditions. An oxymoron has the sense of

  https://tautology.fandom.com/wiki/Claim_of_logic

• William Lane Craig

  http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9229.........Organisms which are not sentient, that is, have no mental life, display at most Level 1 reactions. Insects, worms, and other invertebrates react to noxious

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• MalThus

  Stephan: we know by Darwin's own admission that he obtained the idea or concept of'selection' from the Rev. Robert Malthus, Malthusian Population Principle: "In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had

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• Premise

  All of language functions as on the principle of Pattern or design, Platonic binary opposites. Sentences have no meaning only ideas have meaning. See Pragmatics

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• Tautology Equivocation

  back to http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/TauTology#Links http://groups.google.fm/group/sci.bio.evolution/browse_frm/thread/6d90764876baaab1/27abc531f977929f?tvc=1&q=tautology+selection#27abc531f977929f

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• Maverick Philosopher

  http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2010/01/when-is-a-tautology-not-a-tautology.html When is a logical validity not a pleonams or rhetorical tautology. Use Berry's paradox style subsripts described under

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• Pleonasm

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonasm http://www.philosophy-index.com/logic/terms/tautology.php

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