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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When B provides a counterexample for A's assertion, A redefines "Christian" to mean "a follower of Jesus who doesn't lose his faith", tautologically satisfying his initial assertion. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The voters receive no explicit criteria before voting in that category, which the academy defines tautologically as "the best motion picture of the year." ❋ Unknown (2011)
P.S. The other (pedantic) point, which I forgot to make, is that you counterexample isn't really a counterexample to the theory - if only because the theory is almost tautologically true: what is a "high status group" other than a group which people have positive feelings towards and want to identify with? ❋ Unknown (2009)
If a large (or preferably single) group of patients can negotiate a lower price, then that fact becomes tautologically true. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Gary Greenberg (2010)
Indeed, it seems tautologically true: to be happier, you have to turn sad thoughts and feelings into happy ones. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Jaguar is dazzlingly silver-plated (speed of light) and the Harrier has tautologically painted feathers as if it was not already named, and shaped, after a bird. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As my redefinition should establish, to use the word in such a manner is to speak tautologically. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Your view, on the other hand, tautologically identifies good with the divine will/command, and leaves human beings in every circumstance with no choice but to seek or await divine revelation about what they are supposed to do. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)
Instead, the court tautologically turned its step 1 decision — the statute is ambiguous — to mean that step 2 is satisfied. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That bad regulations have negative externalities is tautologically true in that the negative externalities are what makes them bad. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Translated for my 20th century literary based mind, "get hits" is a synonym for having been "read," and "good bloggers" are those who, tautologically speaking, "get hits." ❋ Unknown (2009)
‘This Chancellor is leading the rest of the world in leading us out of recession!’ yelled Brown tautologically, a tic he immediately repeated. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Obviously, it's tautologically true that Iran "supports terror," since it "supports" Hamas and Hizbullah and we've issued fatwas that these are terrorist groups. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But caucus states don't count, so, tautologically, they are not being disenfranchised. ❋ Unknown (2009)
