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.
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  • 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
  • If inductive inference can teach us something new, in opposition to deductive inference, this is because it is not a tautology.
  • Note the tautology in the first sentence, the feeble attempt at punnery.
  • ‘Business is business,’ his salesman Willie Loman exults, repeating a popular tautology before getting shafted by the company whose wares he'd hawked for four decades.
  • On the whole, this custom has about the same disadvantages and advantages which Warton points out as resulting from the four rhymes of a Spenserian stanza; -- the advantages, -- picturesqueness, ingenuity, discovery of new beauties: the disadvantages, -- art not concealed by art, tautology, imparity of similitudes, a caricature of typology, painful and affected elaboration. Hymns of the Eastern Church
  • To me it was immediately apparent, a tautology, a verbal redundancy.
  • But really, spinning out some kind of clever model to illustrate that idea is unnecessary tautology: I can say it in just a few simple words.
  • Daniel Mitsui over at The Lion and the Cardinal posted some photos of some absolutely magnificent vestments from the monastery of Klosterneuburg made in the early twentieth century, done in the Jugendstil style (if that is not too much of a tautology), the German (and Austrian) counterpart to Art Nouveau. Jugendstil
  • Second, the tautology that money is spent or saved demonstrates that you think that your mastery of the basics of money handling, at a level familiar to even the dimmest of five-year-old children, makes you some kind of expert. Matthew Yglesias » Is VAT an Idea Whose Time Has Passed?
  • I'm not saying he is a sloppy reviewer, because the phrase ‘sloppy reviewer’ is a tautology when it comes to the press.
  • This outcome has become a banal tautology repeated in every pharmaceutical marketing article.
  • This coinage has often provoked the accusation that nothing is really being asserted in the argument for natural selection: since fitness can only be defined by survival the phrase is a tautology.
  • This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
  • Incidentally, white jasmine is a tautology in the Indian context.
  • But was not a theory of which all the elements were provably true a simple tautology ? THE DISPOSSESSED
  • The statement & quot ; He is brave or he is not brave & quot ; is a tautology.
  • To me it was immediately apparent, a tautology, a verbal redundancy.
  • to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology
  • Vain repetitions -- tautology, battology, idle babbling over the same words again and again to no purpose, like Battus, Sub illis montibus erant, erant sub montibus illis; like that imitation of the wordiness of a fool, Eccl. x. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • Implication tautology is not reasoning form.
  • A title whose seeming tautology made it clear that she was primarily interested in poetry.
  • Care should be exercised in wording the sections providing for amending the constitution, etc., to avoid such tautology as ”amend, or add to, or repeal, ” or ”alter or amend, ” or ”amend or in any way change. 11. Miscellaneous. 68. Amendments of Constitutions, By-laws, and Rules of Order
  • the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology
  • Daniel Mitsui over at The Lion and the Cardinal posted some photos of some absolutely magnificent vestments from the monastery of Klosterneuburg made in the early twentieth century, done in the Jugendstil style (if that is not too much of a tautology), the German (and Austrian) counterpart to Art Nouveau. Jugendstil
  • It is conceivable that the key to truth lies in tautology and redundancy.
  • Redundancy and tautology are undesirable, and a sign of less than careful writing.
  • Thus ‘sense-data are sensa’ is not a tautology, but a synthetic proposition.
  • Julian concurred that evenings set aside for communication with ‘dead angels’ (I'm sure there's some tautology in there) were right up his street and he couldn't believe he'd missed it.
  • The past, in effect, is a tautology; it is true by virtue of its logical form alone.
  • The footpath outside the front of our house is flanked on both sides (is that tautology?) with low bushes.

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