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Meanings of tautology in English

Portuguese
tautologia
Spanish
tautología

Common rule of replacement in propositional logic.

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          tautologia
          Russian
          тавтология
          Portuguese
          tautologia
          Spanish
          tautología
          Catalan
          tautologia

          Statement which repeats the same idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words, or phrases.

                Related terms
                тавтология
                Usage of tautology in English
                1
                He utterly despised the avoidance of repetitions out of fear of tautology.
                My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
                2
                No tautology is to be found and no attempt at ornate expression.
                The Constitution of the United States / A Brief Study of the Gen...
                3
                But they are by no means tautology or useless and aimless repetition.
                Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
                4
                Necessity is the mother of all necessary things, to coin a tautology.
                The Vital Abyss
                5
                Is that heaping together of synonyms or all but synonyms, mere tautology?
                Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter...
                6
                Is it a tautology, or are the two terms very different?
                The Irish Times
                7
                There is scarcely any harm in curtailing the frequent tautology of this chapter.
                Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I
                8
                Indeed, one overruns the line of tautology in distinguishing between wealth and power.
                Great Fortunes from Railroads
                9
                The highest message of Mahomet is a piece of divine tautology.
                The New Jerusalem
                10
                Another quality in which modern are superior to ancient languages is freedom from tautology.
                Cratylus
                11
                The battles of the ocean have the same sublime tautology as the combats of Homer.
                The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
                12
                The following extract exhibits examples of tautology and lengthiness.
                How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition
                13
                These days, the construction "political correctness gone mad" is something of a tautology.
                The Irish Times
                14
                Others claim the anthropic principle is an irritating tautology and not a scientific principle at all.
                The Irish Times
                15
                In a way, that is almost a tautology.
                The Guardian
                16
                The copiousness of her vocabulary of abuse surprised herself, and she did not shrink from tautology.
                Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel
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                Portuguese
                tautologia
                Catalan
                tautologia
                Tautology through the time
                Tautology across language varieties
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