alt.energy.renewable

On Aug 15, 9:00 am, "Bill B." < ...@ > wrote:
> On Aug 14, 8:25 am, beal...@ wrote:
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> > On Aug 14, 7:26 am, "daestrom"
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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.
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> Tautalogy may not be a word, but in the original post it was
> 'tautology'.
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> 6 entries: /search?r=2&q=Tautology
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> Roget's has 3: /browse/Tautology
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> 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.
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> I don't care who you are, that there is a sentence to be proud of! I
> should teach a class.
>
> Bill B.

Tautology
1579, from . tautologia "representation of the same thing" (c.
350), from Gk. tautologia, from tautologos "repeating what has been
said," from tauto "the same" + -logos "saying," related to legein "to
say"