Tautology is not the study of something... does anyone know what it is?
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Needless repetition of the same sense of different words; redundancy.  An empty statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false; ie. - Either it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow.
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It is unproven... Science doesn't TRY to prove theories.  It makes them up and tries to DISPROVE them.\n\nOr that scientists don't agree on something, as if it means that it isn't true until they agree.  It's like saying that you won't wear a seat belt, because most trips don't result in a crash.  The few trips that do, and the extreme consequences make up for the mild inconvenience of wearing the seat belt to a person who is prudent.\n\nALSO, when someone hasn't spent any time really thinking about something, but expects someone to waste her time trying to explain it to them.  And of course, they also think that they are brilliant, when they haven't even bothered to learn the science that has been going on for the past few hundred years.
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YES Im really interested in paraphyschology!!! Parapsychology is the study of the evidence of mental awareness or influence of external objects without interaction from known physical means. Most objects of study fall within the realm of "mind-to-mind" influence (such as extra-sensory perception, folie a deux and telepathy ... More » \nI could go on and on!!! :)
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I had a professor who was always very adamant that you could not prove the hypothesis. Something about you don't actually test the hypothesis, you test the question....or somehting. He was very odd. I think there's a difference between a hypothesis and fact.
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Hardly, it's slang. And if you need to really need to know, I won't go into details here. Look it up in the following link.
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Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
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Knowledge is nothing if you don't put it to use.\nWillingness means nothing if you don't do something.
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here's an answer NOT straight from a philosophy book...\nS.E.X.
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the formulas are what convince me.  I've had to derive so many complicate formulas myself, and most of them, especially mechanics formulas can be proven, such as measuring a quantities, solving for a missing variable, then doing an experiment and getting the same answer.  This is too much to be a coincedence or something.  Most theories and things are developed before formulas and actual mathamatical relationships are found, then they find them and it all fits together nicely.  Even with reletivity and things with spacetime, there are a lot of concrete formulas, and once you have the satisfaction of deriving them yourself from previously proven formulas... it all clicks nicely, that's why im a physics major, curiosity about everything like this.  I guess human perception can be valid once connections start being made between things, because when ideas are incorrect, they really don't connect to other things very easily.
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A= I study hard.\nB= I get A's .\nC= I get rich.\n\nA  => B\nC' => A'\n-----------\nC\n\nThis is not a tautology.
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*sigh*\n\nand this is why people are looking to alternative atheist theories
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Makes exactly the same amount of sense, doesn't it?\n\nThere is a certain kind of "logic" that is so off-base that you can't argue with it other than to throw up your hands and give up. That kind of  logic, which includes "how can 2 billion people be wrong" (which obviously doesn't include the Chinese) also asks irrefutable questions of the nature of "If 'BURD' doesn't spell bird, what does it spell?", and so forth.\n\nWhen you give up in disgust, they believe they have won an argument.\n\nWhat I also don't understand is that if the Creator wants me to believe certain things, why have perverts, idiots and outright criminals been appointed to the task of teaching me?
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The logic behind it is what is incomprehensible not the actions... But we don't need to understand the logic in order to understand the actions and believe
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a paradox is an apparent contradiction, but not nescessarily a contradiction. something thats counterintuitive
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Strictly speaking, you have decided NOT to embrace the "undecidable" and NOT the "unverifiable".  Unverifieable, inherently implies the potential applicability of the scientific and/or logical verification process, which in turn could be a function of the Uncertainly Principle, time, knowledge, instrumentation, etc.  Whereas the situation at hand is by far much more hopeless than that; the very notion of "verifiability" does NOT even apply in this case.  Yes my friend those ancient desert-dwellers really knew how to screw us all with their creation of an undecidable god that can only be attained through the pure fairytale process of "faith".   And hence started the greatest conspiracy ever plotted against the human race, and which, in its many mutated forms, continues to this very day.   ... As for the pity part - well, how can I pity someone who has a great family, enjoys his life, and has otherwise had the courage to construct his own reality in accords with his moral will?    Besides, we do not much care for twice-removed guests like you DOWN HERE anyway. :-)
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it is not true\nbut i have no proof
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To be sure, the theory has a lot of gaps.  So it's not a Law.  All's it takes is one scientifically provable discovery that doesn't fit the theory to launch a search for a new theory that will explain the new information while keeping the old proven stuff too.  A good example is Einstein's Theory of Relativity.  Newtonian Mechanics fails at extreme sizes and speeds.  Relativity so far has been able to explain all the variances found to date at those extremes, but has not been proven to be 100% valid all the time, so it's not a law yet.  If you can discover something that invalidates evolutionary theory, you'll probably win a Nobel Prize!