Look up: Tautology

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   tautology
   a repetition a redundancy 
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   Tautology
   repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence.
   *With malice toward none, with charity for all. Lincoln, Second Inaugural
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   tautology
   [n] - (logic) a statement that is necessarily true 2. [n] - useless repetition
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   Tautology
   use of an extra word in a phrase or sentence which unnecessarily repeats an idea: this annual event is staged yearly, this unacceptably poor work is of a low standard.
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   tautology
   (logic) A proposition which is always true. Compare: paradox. The Linguistic Smarandache Tautologies, (http://gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/tautolog.txt). (1999-07-28)
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   tautology
   a trivially true clause containing the subexpression A V A Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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   Tautology
   Tau·tol'o·gy noun [ Latin tautologia , Greek ...: confer French tautologie .] (Rhet.) A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- « The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds ...
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   tautology
   <study> A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: 'The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day.' (Addison) ... Synonym: Repetit ...
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   tautology
   noun useless repetition; `to say that something is `adequate enough` is a tautology`
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    Tautology
    `Tautology` can refer to: *Tautology (logic), a statement of propositional logic which can be inferred from any proposition whatsoever *Tautology (rhetoric), use of redundant language that adds no information
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    Tautology
    • (n.) A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: --//The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,/And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.Tautology: words in t...
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    tautology
    in logic, a statement so framed that it cannot be denied without inconsistency. Thus, `All men are rational` is held to assert with regard to ... [6 related articles]
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    tautology
    tautology, tautologies 1. The needless repetition of an idea; especially, in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman”. 2. The redundant repetition of a meaning in a sentence, using different words. 3. In rhetoric, a tautology is the use of redundant language in speech or writing, or, put simp...
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    tautology
    a statement redundant in itself, such as 'The stars, O astral bodies!'
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    tautology
    An unnecessary accumulation of words of the same or a similar meaning. In essay papers this is marked 'wrong' or 'superfluous', but in literature it is a figure of style (!).
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    tautology
    
    1. (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
    2. useless repetition
    
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    tautology
    In mathematics, a logical statement in which the conclusion is equivalent to the premise. According to the school of thought known as logicism, all of mathematics is derived from logic and is thus inherently tautological. Tautology is also the needless, pointless, meaningless, and unwarranted repeti...
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    Tautology
    As a syntactical term of the propositional calculus this is defined in the article on logic, formal (q.v.). Wittgenstein and Ramsey proposed to extend the concept of a tautology to disciplines involving quantifiers, by interpreting a quantified expression as a multiple (possibly infinite) conjunction or disjunction; under this extension, however, ...
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