Saturday, November 12, 2011

REALITY /// inTerpersonaL ReLatioNships & LanguaGe\\\ CoMMunicatioN betweeN peopLe(s) {wiTh WorDs}

eVeN NatiVe speakers oF the same Language frOM/sinCe birTh wiLL haVe differeNces iN \ oF inteRpReTatIOns meanings oF a GiVeN thouGHt...
" the oLd saW: ==i KnoW whaT yoU thinK yoU thoughT i SaiD buT whaT yoU thoughT waS noT whaT i MeanT..." oR sOMething liKe(s) thaT=====
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"WhaT yoU hearD mE saY, waS NoT whaT i thinK i MeaNT to ThinK
oR whaT yoU hearD mE thiNk i diD noT saY whaT i MeanT..

Tautology (from Greek tauto, "the same" and logos, "word/idea") is an unnecessary or unessential (and sometimes unintentional) repetition of meaning, using different and dissimilar words that effectively say the same thing (often originally from different languages). It is considered a fault of style and was defined by Fowler as "saying the same thing twice", if it is not apparently necessary or essential for the entire meaning of a phrase to be repeated. If a part of the meaning is repeated in such a way that it appears as unintentional, or clumsy, then it may be described as tautology. On the other hand, a repetition of meaning which improves the style of a piece of speech or writing is not necessarily described as tautology.
A rhetorical tautology can also be defined as a series of statements that comprise an argument, whereby the statements are constructed in such a way that the truth of the proposition is guaranteed or that the truth of the proposition cannot be disputed by defining a term in terms of another self-referentially. Consequently, the statement conveys no useful information regardless of its length or complexity making it unfalsifiable. It is a way of formulating a description such that it masquerades as an explanation when the real reason for the phenomena cannot be independently derived. A rhetorical tautology should not be confused with a tautology in propositional logic, since the inherent meanings and subsequent conclusions in rhetorical and logical tautologies are very different.

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