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Tautology (n): that which is tautologous, a tautology. Jack built a brick house out of bricks.
The filing cabinet had inertia, it wouldn't budge. Go sit in the corner where the walls and floor meet, boy! The tautologous tautology |
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saying the same thing twice over in different words Some people think this is an example of tautology:
It would be easy to find a blind man in a nudist colony because it wouldn't be hard. |
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True by definition, literally "saying the same". Pointlessly obvious. Additional words that add no meaning. "Either we'll get in trouble, or we won't" is a logical tautology. By including all possibilities the statement must inherently be true.
In "PIN number" the word "number" is a tautology because a PIN is always a number. (At least that's what the N originally stood for — if the term PIN evolved to include letters someday then PIN number would no longer be a tautology.) In "morning sunrise" the tautology is "morning" because sunrises are a subset of mornings; removing the first word removes no meaning. (The addition of "morning" may be aesthetically more pleasing, in a poem for example, but it remains a logical tautology.) |
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The repetition of meaning in the same sentence, using different words. Usually decreases clarity of speech/writing. Example of a sentence using Tautology:
He struggled to lift the heavy weights, he had trouble raising them. |
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Using different words to say the same thing, or a series of self-reinforcing statements that cannot be disproved because they depend on the assumption that they are already correct ME: Dudes such a wanker he’s dead-to-me… like piss-on-his-grave dead-to-me…
FRIEND: Thats a hell-of-a tautology if i have ever heard one. |
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Unnecessary repetition of a word. HIV virus
PIN number |
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Examples of tautology:
It was a wet rainy day with lots of precipitation. She is a female woman of the opposite sex, John. We could see some dilapidated ruins. |
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