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/tɔːtˈɒlədʒi/
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NOUN
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(logic) a statement that is necessarily true
the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology -
useless repetition
to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology
How To Use tautology In A Sentence
- Firstly, on the basis of implication, originating from the limited Disturbing Fuzzy Propositional Logic, discusses its logic algebra and the properties of its generalized tautology.
- As Donald Gillies (1972, 6 “ 7) emphasizes, if we accept the most extreme kind of operationalism, there is no point in asking whether a measurement method is valid; if the measurement method defines the concept and there is nothing more to the meaning of the concept, the measurement method is automatically valid, as a matter of convention or even tautology. Operationalism
- Installation views of past exhibitions, monumentalized and themselves turned into works of art on the walls of the museum, create a self-referential tautology-successful from the curatorial standpoint, spectacular in terms of the installation-and lead viewers deep into the artist's weltanschauung. Artforum.com
- Tautology and absurdity are never far apart in Harry's spiels, but this one takes some beating.
- Despite only having three axiom schemata and a single inference rule, it is possible to prove any tautology in the simple Propositional Calculus, PC.
- Strengthening is a special case of transitivity, in which the missing premise is a tautology: if C & A then A; if A, B; so if C & A, B.
- It doesn't affect the validity of the statement, so you can include it without destroying your tautology.
- Some authors treated the quantity theory as a matter of causal relation and explanation, often differing as to the content and direction of explanation, whereas others saw it as a truism, identity or tautology.
- By your facile tautology, I could tell you that I am omnipotent God and as such I have chosen to hide from you the evidence of my transcendent almightiness -- Wired Top Stories
- At times the unrhymed lines slip into tautology, but such moments are rare. The Times Literary Supplement