Tautology definitions

Tautology

1) Mathematical logic 2) Rose is a rose is a rose 3) True statement 4) Truth 5) Type of Sentence 6) Useless repetition
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Tautology

1) Repetition
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tautology

1. (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
2. useless repetition

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Tautology

[grammar] In grammar, a tautology (from Greek tauto, `the same` and logos, `word/idea`) is an unnecessary repetition of meaning, using multiple words to effectively say the same thing (often originally from different languages). It is considered a fault of style and was defined by A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Fowler) as `saying the...
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Tautology

[logic] Tautologies are a key concept in propositional logic, where a tautology is defined as a propositional formula that is true under any possible Boolean valuation of its propositional variables. A key property of tautologies in propositional logic is that an effective method exists for testing whether a given formula is always satisfie...
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tautology

a statement redundant in itself, such as 'The stars, O astral bodies!'
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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

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

<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: Repeti...
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Tautology

A statement redundant in itself, such as 'the stars, o astral bodies!'
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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, a...
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tautology

a repetition a redundancy 
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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

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

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 o...
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Tautology

Tautology is defining or explaining something by saying exactly the same thing again in different words.
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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

noun useless repetition; `to say that something is `adequate enough` is a tautology`
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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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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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tautology

useless repetition
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