[lit-ideas] Re: Tautology, Patent & Other

  • From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:26:16 +0100 (BST)

  
> Grice gives two good (well, kind of) examples of 'patent' (he calls them)  
> tautology:
>  
>      War is war.
>      Women are women.
  
I would agree that these are tautologies - if there is such a thing as a
tautology, which there seems to be. 

But isn't there a sense in which 'war' might turn out not to be 'war' after
all? After all, green isn't always green, is it?

Donal
The drugs finally having kicked in


        
        
                
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