Jake:

100 percent analogy is not analogy. Just is not.

This is precisely what I’ve been saying. To use a simile of my own, looking for a 100 percent analogy is like sending some on a prank errand to buy a Non-Genetically Modified Seedless Watermelon. Doesn’t exist. (Nor for that matter does any Non-Genetically Modified food since the time…[Read more]

Woops,

I think i see now what i missed then. Reg is using 100%/analogy as a tautology thus enabling an identity. Ok.

100 percent analogy is not analogy. Just is not. Identical twins are comparable and analogizable. (new word is like a neologism.) Yet they’re not identical and thus proper subjects. Once identity is evident it is properly tautology time. Never the twain shall meet..

“As for similes, what are they like?” If we can only answer a simile with a…[Read more]

Jake:

100 percent analogy is a contradiction in terms. If there is no line of demarcation, no variation and no way to distinguish things being compared then it is not an analogy.

Recall, I said: “Obviously, no analogy is 100 percent perfect, otherwise, it would be a tautology.”. So we are saying the same thing, only differently.

By the way, my…

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Reg:

I would like to quibble…I might be wrong so won’t swear on the holey bibble….but would a 100% analogy not be an ‘identity’? A tautology is a statement true by its logical form. An analogy that matched in every respect would simply describe the same thing twice?

You are right on all counts, Reg. A 100 percent perfect analogy is an “identity…[Read more]

100 percent analogy is a contradiction in terms. If there is no line of demarcation, no variation and no way to distinguish things being compared then it is not an analogy.

Seems to me speaker’s typically convey something negative when they point out a tautology. It is a needless repetition. Pointing out a tautology is a way to rebuke a speaker…[Read more]

I would like to quibble…I might be wrong so won’t swear on the holey bibble….but would a 100% analogy not be an ‘identity’? A tautology is a statement true by its logical form. An analogy that matched in every respect would simply describe the same thing twice?

When it comes to tautologies, either I’m being pedantic, or I’m not being ped…[Read more]

I never really understood the way a Jewish population stays in Germany. I remember reading racist anti Jewish laws that required Jewish immigrants to live together in a Jewish ghetto. A German woman told me no way. I gave her the site and she consulted other Germans and could not invalidate the law.

This is the wake up call perhaps to GTFO.…[Read more]

Enco,

“Obviously, no analogy is 100 percent perfect, otherwise it would be a tautology.” That’s a good line. One i won’t quibble or refine.

“Anyway, my main point is, technology doesn’t spring from the head of Zeus fully developed…

True and billions are being poured into AI. Pace of progress in its evolution is wild and analagous to e…[Read more]

Jake:

Enco,

It is kind of unreal that you adduce Speed Racer as a model for the assimilation of technology. But there ya go. Loved that show when i was a little’n.

Obviously, no analogy is 100 percent perfect, otherwise it would be a tautology. And we would be driving on OpenAIs and Anthropics as well.

(My preference is the Rolls Royce o…[Read more]