On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Russell Standish wrote:
> > > Then maybe I misunderstood you. A tautology is a term with redundant
> > > parts, ie it is equivalent to some subset of itself. I took your
> > > statement that "ASSA is a tautology" to mean that ASSA is equivalent
> > > to SSA (symbolically ASSA <=> SSA). I directly contradict this in my
> > > first sentence.
> >
> > > [JM wrote]
> > From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn)
> > tautology n 1: (in logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the
> > statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology" 2: useless
> > repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
> >
> > I was not aware of meaning 2 of the word, while I have
> > frequently encountered the word used for meaning 1.
> >
> The definition I gave and the one you quoted are equivalent.
I quoted two very different definitions. The one you gave is
equivalent to #2. The one I meant in my 'zombie wives' post was #1.
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Received on Fri Sep 03 1999 - 12:56:48 PDT