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Originally Posted by MySiddhi
Logical tautology is Logical truth; A statement which is necessarily true because, by virtue of its logical form, it cannot be used to make a false assertion.
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Quite true! I needed to check your meaning because quite frankly, your "Tautologies" are of the Rhetorical type:
"In rhetoric, a tautology is an unnecessary repetition of meaning, using different words that effectively say the same thing twice."
Take for example, "Nothing is nothing" (for which I'd refer you to the link in my signature below): The Law of Identity provides no useful substantiation for any proof defining the concept of "nothing." In fact it can be quite misleading when "A" is ill-defined, in which case, it becomes easy to demonstrate (see the aforementioned thread) that "A = ~A"
Similarly take: "
Nothing is uninvolved. - Something is self-causal." "Nothing is uninvolved" is hardly a logical Tautology, however it is a Rhetorical one. At this level it is clear that an anthropomorphic projection of the word "nothing" may imply "uninvolved" and such a statement is often assumed in analyzing say affairs of state (e.g. "a power vacuum"), however it is limited in its explanatory value as it is simply restating a similar and tenuously related concept. Trying to call this a Logical Tautology however is beyond comprehension, because there are so many counterexamples (e.g. "a power vacuum" can result in catastrophic effects on a social system). The implication posed: "Something is self-causal" is not equivalent to saying "not A" and thus adding it also does not create a Tautology.
If you expect to be taken seriously, you are going to need to provide a much more detailed explanation of why you insist that these givens are indeed Tautologies.
Fortunately a review of your oeuvre on the Internet indicates that this is the sum total of your published "research," so fortunately it appears that we may be lucky enough to have this be all we will hear of your tortured logic....
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context,
Buffy
