Semantics I acknowledgements

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Semantics

4.1.5 Contradiction

4.1.4
Tautology
Tautology is a semantic redundancy that in it there is a superfluous information. For example, The man is an adult. We can look in the predicate (adult) that its sense is included in the subject (man. So, it is also a meaningless repetition. Another example My brother is an unmarried
bachelor.
The rule of tautology would be Xis a tautology
X is invariably true.

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4.1.5
Contradiction
The term deals with a contradiction between the subject and predicate in their words, that the meaning of the subject contains information incompatible with what is attributed to it in the predicate. For example, Kings are women, bachelors are pregnant. We know that kings and bachelors do not contain such a female feature. But it is true that inking s embedded or we have an interpretation of queen. If we say,
Nowadays kings are women, it is of course, they are no longer kings, but queens.
The rule for contradiction Xis a contradiction
X is invariably false.

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