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Tautology

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





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"Tautology" Quotes from Famous Books



... Village" is tautology? That region known affectionately as "Our Village" is Greenwich, pure and simple, and here is ...
— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin
... which appears when we are thinking even potentially as the outraged head of a family. In one case the private feeling which enters into the opinion is tepid, in the other, red hot. And so while it is so true as to be mere tautology that "self-interest" determines opinion, the statement is not illuminating, until we know which self out of many selects and ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann
... thought I saw something on yo' thoughts—if you'll excuse my tautology. Thass a ve'y diffycult to p'event sometime'. But, Mistoo Itchlin, I trus' 'tis not you 'ave allowed somebody to swin'le you?—confiding them too indiscweetly, in fact?" He took a pretty attitude, his ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable


Words linked to "Tautology" :   tautological, logic, repetitiveness, truth, tautologic, true statement, repetitiousness


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