alt.energy.renewable

On Aug 14, 8:25 am, beal...@ wrote:
> On Aug 14, 7:26 am, "daestrom"
> wrote:
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> > wrote in message
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> >news: @ ...
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> > > On Aug 10, 6:57 am, "daestrom"
> > > wrote:
> > >> wrote in message
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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.
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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
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> You missed the point Tautalogy is not a word.

Tautalogy may not be a word, but in the original post it was
'tautology'.

6 entries: /search?r=2&q=Tautology

Roget's has 3: /browse/Tautology

In this vein, if someone can't prove that Tautology is a word then
that word must not exist except within the confines of the language in
which it was presupposed in the first place, which though I hate to
say it, means that George was correct in his original post which is
that while the device is handy under certain circumstances, there are
occasions when it can be considered merely a cognomen in regards to
the original source in which it actually kills watts, which is why it
was renamed from the "powertraker" to the Kill-a-watt after the
lawsuit in 1962 where it was proven in the 42nd probate court in
Columbus, Ohio which handed down its decision on February 30, 1985.

I don't care who you are, that there is a sentence to be proud of! I
should teach a class.

Bill B.