Look up: tautology

1. tautology
   a repetition a redundancy 
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2. 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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3. tautology
   [n] - (logic) a statement that is necessarily true 2. [n] - useless repetition
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4. 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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5. tautology
   a trivially true clause containing the subexpression A V A Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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6. 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...
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7. 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...
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8. tautology
   noun useless repetition; `to say that something is `adequate enough` is a tautology`
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9. 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 cloud...
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10. 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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11. 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 ta...
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12. tautology
    a statement redundant in itself, such as 'The stars, O astral bodies!'
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13. 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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14. tautology
    
    • (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
    • useless repetition
    
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15. 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) conjunctio...
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16. tautology
    Repetition of the same thing in different words. For example, it is tautologous to say that something is most unique, since unique means that there is only one of its kind and so something cannot be described as `more` or `most` unique; something is either unique or not. Other examples a...
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17. 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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18. Tautology
    (logic) In logic, a `tautology` (from the Greek word ταυτολογία) is a formula which is true in every possible interpretation. Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein first applied the term to redundancies of propositional logic in 1921; it had been used earlier to ref...
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19. Tautology
    (rhetoric) `Tautology` from Greek , `tauto`: the same, and `logos`: word/idea 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). It is consi...
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