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• There is knowing and there is faith, the knowable is provable to a certain extent, faith is not, thus perpetuating the latter's own need tautologically. TEXAS FAITH: What's the role of religion in public education? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
• The camp provided the Germans tautological proof of the necessity of imprisoning Untermenschen: the disgusting state of the Haftlinge of Auschwitz demonstrated their inferiority and justified their murder.
• You can tautologically assert that it is “rational” for a person in accord to “true preferences” that are “revealed” by their action in eating cheeseburger after cheeseburger only to later be deeply ostracized by society for being fat and then later to suffer a horrible death at a young age, but this is just nonsense. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
• It's usually assumed that beauty is, almost tautologically, an ‘aesthetic’ category, which puts it, according to many, on a collision course with the ethical.
• So it could be called pleonastic or tautological, but not an oxymoron. GeekLikeMe.net
• The tautological, circumlocutory argument of American Exceptionalism can be stated thusly: “We are on a providentially inspired mission and are guided by a ‘Higher Power’, therefore whatever our actions or policies, we cannot be in the wrong.” American Exceptionalism
• Perhaps we shouldn't be too harsh on the halfwits who came up with these tautological complaints (don't dull, staid and uninteresting mean the same thing?)
• Its modern version—the idea that somewhere in us is an authentic self, waiting to emerge like a sculpture from a slab of marble—is equally unable to withstand the obvious effects of mind-altering drugs, unless you define that self tautologically as whatever is released by the chemical. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
• The answer given by the Councilors is tautological: they are the lawful authority because the law has defined them as such.
• The voters receive no explicit criteria before voting in that category, which the academy defines tautologically as "the best motion picture of the year. Academy Awards: And the Oscar for Best Picture goes to reward . . . just what?