But first, a preliminary note. A non-self-referential tautology always implies a restriction of its referent context with respect to reality as a whole. Otherwise, there would be no place left to formulate it in which it could avoid referring to itself. There is just one obvious context which cannot be restricted in this way: reality as a whole. This, of course, is the universe of any theory of metaphysics. Like propositional logic, a metaphysical theory must be formulated within the context to which it refers. So, given our "relaxed" definition of tautology, it will be understood that tautology becomes self-referential by necessity at the "metaphysical limit" of predicate-logical theorization.
From: http://megasociety.org/noesis/76/05.htm
A self-referential tautology is a restriction of a specific context. And so reality as a whole, since it qualifies as a tautology, is restricted by this self-referential context.
From: http://megasociety.org/noesis/76/05.htm
A self-referential tautology is a restriction of a specific context. And so reality as a whole, since it qualifies as a tautology, is restricted by this self-referential context.