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Tautology

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Sep 3, 2026

Mark KermodeHOST
7:43
W-What is it when you say the same thing twice? Um, uh-
Simon MayoHOST
7:45
Tautology? Or is that a contradiction?
Mark KermodeHOST
7:47
Tautology.
Mark KermodeHOST
7:49
Tautology.
Simon MayoHOST
7:49
No, that's...
Simon MayoHOST
7:50
No, that's...
Simon MayoHOST
8:03
Uh, search Kerman & Mayo, uh, Patreon, and you'll find us.
Simon MayoHOST
8:07
Uh, everything is very straightforward.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
140:08
The proposition shows what it says, the tautology and the contradiction, that they say nothing.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
140:16
The tautology has no truth conditions, for it is unconditionally true, and the contradiction is on no condition true.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
140:25
Tautology and contradiction are without sense, like the point from which two arrows go out in opposite directions.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
140:34
I know, e.g., nothing about the weather when I know that it rains or does not rain.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
140:41
Four point four six one one.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
140:45
Tautology and contradiction are, however, not nonsensical.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
140:50
They are part of the symbolism in the same way that zero is part of the symbolism of arithmetic.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
140:58
Four point four six two.

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