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Redster • last Tuesday at 3:50 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Tautologies are beautiful and helpful because they help people and are full of beauty.

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jschveibinz • today at 2:57 PM

Thank you

oliculipolicula • today at 2:33 AM

Trying to reword your joke to one more aligned with TFA's:

  Tautologies are B&H because they confound intuition (H) AND are truthful (B)
NGL, I made use of following tautology

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecia...

Author in comments: Fair point. I suppose I decided to use the term tautology for the same reason I embrace "[liberalism=]neoliberalism", to defend a term that is often unfairly maligned.