logical truth
Britishnoun
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another term for tautology
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the property of being logically tautologous
Example Sentences
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“How could you . . . a man devoted to reason and logical truth, believe that extraterrestrials are sending you messages?” the colleague asked.
From Washington Post
Shall we of this foremost age accept convincing, logical truth, though it run counter to our preconceived notions?
From Project Gutenberg
In order to improve the method of mathematics, it is especially necessary to overcome the prejudice that demonstrated truth has any superiority over what is known through perception, or that logical truth founded upon the principle of contradiction has any superiority over metaphysical truth, which is immediately evident, and to which belongs the pure intuition or perception of space.
From Project Gutenberg
His being is universal existence, and, as universals have only a logical truth, being in se is equivalent to Nothing.
From Project Gutenberg
The congruity of thought with itself, judgments, conclusions, analyses, etc., is the sole logical truth, as against Trendelenburg, who took the Aristotelian position that logical truth is the "agreement of thought with the object of thought."
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