Quotes About Tautologies
Logic is not a science that discovers truths; it is just a collection of tautologies.
~ Ray Monk
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Tautologies, according to Wittgenstein, are senseless, because, as they do not picture the world, they lack sense.
~ Ray Monk
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Wittgenstein calls tautologies and contradictions 'pseudo-propositions'; they are not real propositions, because real propositions can be either true or false.
~ Ray Monk
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Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.
~ Frank P. Ramsey
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All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact
~ Herbert Simon
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Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.
~ Henri Poincare
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The logic of the world which the propositions of logic show in tautologies, mathematics shows in equations.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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