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tautology::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | true statement, truth |
| Derivation | tautological |
the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | repetitiousness, repetitiveness |
| Derivation | tautologic, tautological |
to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology.
Examples of tautology
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Because this is pure culinary tautology, like Chinese Stilton or German dim sum.
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The term pleonasm is most often, however, employed as synonymous with tautology.
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Similarly, if S is a tautology then S is tautologically implied by every formula.
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Kant argues that this is merely a tautology and cannot say anything about reality.
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At the risk of sounding pernickety, isn't indispensable catalyst a tautology?
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But any valuation that makes A true will make S true, because is a tautology.
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The fundamental definition of a tautology is in the context of propositional logic.
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I, personally, myself believe that the use of tautology is a good way to go.
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It might want to look up tautology in the dictionary before it goes further.
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- (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology"
- Useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
- (tautological) pleonastic: repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant
- In logic, a tautology (from the Greek word u03C4u03B1u03C5u03C4u03BFu03BBu03BFu03B3u03AFu03B1) is a formula that is true in every possible interpretation.
- In rhetoric, a tautology is an unnecessary or unessential (and sometimes unintentional) repetition of meaning, using different and dissimilar words that effectively say the same thing (often originally from different languages). ...
- Redundant use of words; An expression that features tautology; A statement that is true for all values of its variables
- (tautological) of, relating to, or using tautology; using repetition or excessive wordiness; pleonastic or circumlocutionary
- (tautologous) Pertaining to a tautology; tautological
- (Tautologies) Statements that are necessarily true, either because they are logical or mathematical in nature, or because they are truisms and true by definition.
