Re: Circular Crackpot Identity

From: Ian Goddard (igoddard@erols.com)
Date: Sun Mar 15 1998 - 22:41:40 MST


Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com) wrote:

>Ian Goddard wrote:
>>
>> As I've shown many times, the definition of identity
>> "A=A" is the crackpot fallacy of Circular Definition:
>
>I don't see the word "identity" in the phrase "A=A", do you?

  IAN: "A" is the identity. Would a dictionary
  that defines what an elephant is be useful
  if it read, "Elephant: elephant." ?

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