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TIL: Tautological - an argument which repeats an assertion using different phrasing
by danvoell 8y ago
TIL: Tautological - an argument which repeats an assertion using different phrasing
- patrickryan 8y agoI looked this up as well! Hah!
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- akharris 8y agoThis is one of my favorite words. I almost never find a way to correctly work it into a sentence, so was happy I managed to do so here.
- dguaraglia 8y agoI remember learning this in high-school as part of propositional logic, and it was essentially described "the opposite of a contradiction": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(logic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(logic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contradiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contradiction Is the teaching of propositional logic common in the US?
- krallja 8y agoI did not learn propositional logic until I was in college.
- dguaraglia 8y agoTo be fair, the school I went to was very particular, as it ran by the same university that ran the college I went to. In a way, a lot of the subjects we took early on were preparing us for college.