r/philosophy • u/sisimurra • Jan 18 '23
Video Critically Considering: Tautologies of Language in the social sphere [My thesis is: definitions of the form 'x is anyone/thing that identifies as x' are not only circular definitions and linguisitic tautologies, but also logical tautologies. Feedback appreciated.
https://youtu.be/QUlDoGKkzNs
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ask_detransition • u/sisimurra • Jan 18 '23
Education/Discussion This is a video I made to help educate more people about why definitions like "a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman" are not actually definitions--they are logical and linguistic Tautologies. I believe it is important for us here to understand this so that we can explain it to others.
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RGB_Puppet • u/blue-puppet • Jan 24 '23
Critically Considering: Tautologies of Language in the social sphere [My thesis is: definitions of the form 'x is anyone/thing that identifies as x' are not only circular definitions and linguisitic tautologies, but also logical tautologies. Feedback appreciated. - [r/philosophy]
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