NOUN | communication | tautology | (logic) a statement that is necessarily true |
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communication | tautology | useless repetition |
Meaning | (logic) a statement that is necessarily true. | |
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Example | "the statement 'he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology" | |
Category | logic | The branch of philosophy that analyzes inference |
Broader | truth, true statement | A true statement |
Spanish | pleonasmo, redundancia, tautología | |
Catalan | tautologia | |
Adjectives | tautological | repetition of same sense in different words |
Meaning | useless repetition. | |
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Example | "to say that something is 'adequate enough' is a tautology" | |
Broader | repetitiveness, repetitiousness | verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions |
Spanish | tautología | |
Catalan | tautologia | |
Adjectives | tautologic, tautological | repetition of same sense in different words |
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