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Article here : http://mises.org/daily/3835 The author, Robert Murphy argues that: "There is, indeed, a large empirical literature, in which Fama and others conducted falsifiable tests. However, as I hope I've demonstrated with the quotations above, in practice the efficient-markets hypothesis is actually a tautology, or a way of viewing the world." Just a couple of ...
Started 2 months ago (2009-10-22 00:23:00)
by Robbo Delicious
"Contains offensive content" - tautology? This is a phrase I am often tempted to use in my job as a censor, but I always forgo it in favour of something like "contains offensive material" or "contains offensive scenes" or something like that. I feel weird saying that something contains content . Is it a tautology? I maintain that "content" by its very nature is "contained" and ...
Started 1 week ago (2009-12-18 09:17:00)
by Thrasymachus
Quote: Originally Posted by r937 whoa, that's a rare one a tautology wrapped in a redundancy nice one, sean yeah. I was spent. Lately most of my days have been ending in me babbling nonsense. once i wrap this thing on the 15th I am going to slack off for a good month. We are going to get a ...
Started 5 days, 6 hours ago (2009-12-20 12:51:00)
by Hawkowl
Can you see that as it stands now government = the corporations? We are already there. Radical nationalism? What do you call the constant nonsense of "support our troops!" The constant flag waving and chest thumping while we slaughter goat herders and poppy growers with pilotless drone aircraft? Why do we occupy a nation that has virtually no influence on our national security but a large ...
Started 4 days, 8 hours ago (2009-12-21 10:44:00)
by OKIsItJustMe
Its a matter of definition . Science, a human drive to understand the nature of things, is motivated by our psychology. Technology (a byproduct of science) is motivated by our psychology. Money, a psychological construct. (Its only worth is that which we assign it.) If we start with the assumption that Climate Change is caused by human behavior, then ( by definition ) Climate Change...
Started 3 days, 4 hours ago (2009-12-22 14:44:00)
by Addison Ling
The Worm Whisperer wrote: I think it’s [tautological framing of theorems] more something done in concept than explicitly. Perhaps the use of it this way is to remind you that any logically proved theorem is just a tautology and says nothing about physical reality. TWW But wouldn’t this approach then negate the whole point of Arturo’s logical reasoning? (Maybe i should put those last two...
Started 5 days, 23 hours ago (2009-12-19 20:18:00)
by felix
Quote: Originally Posted by gannetsarewe Another annoying thing are posts in Scots phonetic, the uv goat me baws oot kind of thing, I have no issue with idiom or vernacular but their ubiquity and the assumption that said posts come with built in funniness makes me now consider the phrase humourless Scot to be a tautology....
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-12-17 09:01:00)
by The Man
Originally Posted by doronshadmi EDIT: There is no other relationship between X and Y but anything but in the case of ~. Again your universe is limited to 2-valued system of opposites ([X,Y] in this case), which leads you to tautology or contradiction. =X is: "X is itself". =Y is: "Y is itself". ~(=X) is: "Anything but =X" = =Y ...
Started 5 days, 16 hours ago (2009-12-20 02:49:00)
by Polk
Quote: Originally Posted by The Rabbi Quote: Originally Posted by Polk Quote: Originally Posted by The Rabbi You deal in party hackism. I already told you why your argument is bogus: Claiming an increase in GDP due to government spending, where GDP measures government spending is a tautology. Being called a hack by the high ...
Started 4 days, 3 hours ago (2009-12-21 15:39:00)
by Jaxbuck
Quote: Originally Posted by BayBuck This sounds more like a tautology than a meaningful criticism. If you are just trying to ignore the main point and focus on semantics then I agree. Poor wordsmithing on my part. Quote: Originally Posted by AuburnBuckeye...
Started 5 days, 11 hours ago (2009-12-20 07:51:00)
by The Great Khan
Quote: Originally Posted by nate895 If 1+1=2 is conveyed by what is false, how do you know it is true? You are simply asserting what amounts to a tautology: “Knowledge exists, therefore knowledge exists in my worldview.” I am saying, in principle, you cannot have knowledge because if everything is communicated by what is false, then ...
Started 1 day, 7 hours ago (2009-12-24 12:15:00)
by Raffekki
Quote: Originally Posted by bananafish The fact that the theory of natural selection is difficult to test has led some people, anti-Darwinists and even some great Darwinists, to claim that it is a tautology. . . . I mention this problem because I too belong among the culprits. Influenced by what these authorities say, I have in the ...
