alt.energy.renewable

On Aug 14, 7:26 am, "daestrom"
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> > On Aug 10, 6:57 am, "daestrom"
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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.
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> >> > 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! /
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> >> 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.
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> >> daestrom
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> > Tautology
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> > 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"
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> Guess you missed the irony.
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> 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.
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> daestrom /wiki/Tautology_%28logic%29

You missed the point Tautalogy is not a word.