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xod: > "Inconceivable" means tautological, when it doesn't simply denote a lack > of imagination. Therefore my canonical example is "2 = 2tu'o"; 2 equals 2 > and any other answer is inconceivable. I could present mind-teasers, > however, with the equivalent tautology buried in more interesting > phenomena, such as the 2 sides of a coin for any coin with sufficient > reasonability conditions What are some of the more interesting phenomena? Note that you can talk about one side of a two-sided coin. And you know there are two sides, and not three, because you can recognize what counts as one side. > Upon reflection, a "this is tautological" marker should be an evidential > UI. se'o might work; any sentient being should be expected to be able to > process tautologies No objections to that, but I object to having to be more verbose in order to indicate that I'm working with an ontology that is in some ways simpler than the one Lojban forces on me. --And.