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> On Aug 10, 6:57 am, "daestrom"
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>> news:diljb3pskkoj20jkoneq4vhgjs1fcpn9t0@ ...
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>> > On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:35:07 -0000, beal...@ wrote:
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>> >>It's a funny thing about the Titanic, there is some question about
>> >>whether or not it was in fact the Titanic at all that sank.
>>
>> > So we finally find out what you're using that computer for 5 hours per
>> > day... to search for other loons! I Googled "titanic conspiracy" and
>> > whoa! Scientific experiments *have* been conducted to support your
>> > position! /
>>
>> That's a good laugh. Guy playing with toy boats in a bathtub. And
>> closing
>> with, "Until they prove they didn't do it, I'm convinced that they did."
>> Wonderful bit of tautalogy there.
>>
>> daestrom
>
> Tautology
>
> tautology (as in "truth") n. : (logic) a statement that is necessarily
> true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a
> tautology"
>

Guess you missed the irony.

A 'tautology' in prepositional logic is one that is true no matter how you
interpret it. Since you can't prove a 'negative' ( . 'prove they didn't
do it [conspire to fool the public about Titanic]'), the author will forever
be 'convinced that they did.' So he never has to bother thinking. But his
'lack of thinking' is pretty obvious anyway.

daestrom
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