Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

A Tautology at John 19:22?

"What I have written, I have written."  (Pilate)  Another example of a tautological formulation the meaning of which is non-tautological:  What I have written I will not change.  Sentence meaning and speaker's meaning come apart.

I explore this phenomenon in detail in the following posts:

When is a Tautology not a Tautology?

Seldom Seen Slim on Tautologies that Ain't

'He's His Father's Son': More on Tautologies that Ain't


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