Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of a potential tautology
"There only remains for us one enunciation of the principle of the conservation of energy: There is something which remains constant. Under this form it is in its turn out of reach of experiment and reduces to a sort of tautology."
Henri Poincaré (1902) Science and Hypothesis
There is a danger that we define energy as that which is always conserved according to the conservation principle.
