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tautology refers to a statement or phrase that is repetitive or redundant, saying the same thing twice using different words. It is an unnecessary and often unhelpful repetition that doesn't add any new information.
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Yet the latter are not mere
tautologies of the sort that, once you deny the subject you can deny the predicate.
Redundancies, also known
as tautologies, seem (at least to some) to add a formal, airtight quality to the language.
There are some examples of
tautology in sentences: new innovation; personally I; the evening sunset; first priority; in my opinion, I think that; sleepily sleepy; my own; morning sunrise; first and foremost; etc..
And is this phrase more then a mere
tautology like survival of the fittest?
«Pussy is pussy» and «bitches are bitches» but Jen Silverman's Collective Rage at Southwark Playhouse smashes
tautologies with roguish comedy in a tight five - hander smartly directed by Charlie Parham.The play is set in New York and follows the ad...
Her grandiose title is not a
mere tautology as some people will assume.
It is not simple to write any piece of academic writing, and when it comes to creative essay, the majority of students just fall into despair as they think that they are not creative enough to write creative essay, sorry
for tautology.
But site specific to the extreme, Photopath verged
on tautology.
As regards the dominant climate of philosophical opinion, however, despite all the disclaimers that have been made concerning classical empiricism and positivism, the old dichotomy between a domain of sensible fact on the one hand, and sets of logical forms on the other, seems to persist and behind it the old dogma that where we have necessity we have
merely tautology, and where we have fact or «experience» there is no necessity.
the UK's positon on Brexit has largely been defined
by tautology: Brexit means Brexit.
I think it's important to apply Catholic social teaching, but not to allow it to be rendered meaningless through
tautologies such as a poor Church of the poor.
We will laugh when incongruity is resolved in a clever way, when a strange - seeming something is exposed as a trivial nothing — when a proof of the Riemann hypothesis dissolves the Platonic otherness of the primes into
obvious tautology, and what is today regarded as the hardest problem ever conceived by the human mind becomes a somewhat broad joke, fit for schoolchildren.
• express yourself; • show your competence; • be interactive, try to entertain a reader — not to overload; • follow your writing clarity; • do not plagiarize (rephrase, just in case); • do not
use tautology, it sounds awful.
The problem I have sketched here was often discussed in philosophical literature from the 1930's through 50's, and later, in connection with the neopositivistic requirement that every meaningful proposition must either be a
formal tautology or empirically verifiable.
But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally
abstract tautology.
There is
arresting tautology — but more than that — in the exclamation, «For freedom Christ has set us free» (Gal.
(Religious Language, p. 112) Mrs. Dixon's children were right, because the use of the name Yahweh gave them a personal handle by which they could think about God, but as they grow they will be ready for the further disclosure of the mystery where all that God will say is, «I am I,» which is the
ultimate tautology.
Intent Assuming that every white nationalist is a white supremacist / separatist, because of understood colloquialisms, establishes an
unsubstantiated tautology.
This was her route to becoming the unity candidate: uttering a
political tautology in a categorical manner.
Kurt Russell (Dark Blue) is perfectly cast and together with the rest of the adults stumbles deliberately over the
moronic tautologies spouted at various significant moments.
And in the
country Tautology Land better teachers are the ones who produce better scores.
Strikes me that that there's a serious specification issue and
potential tautology involved in asserting that the «top one - third of students» get the «best one - third of teachers,» especially when the gauge of teacher quality is student performance.
I may debate whether the Voyage is unique or not, but Michael should
avoid tautology like «entirely unique».
Daignault's paintings, or
visual tautologies, are rendered in a not - quite photo - realistic manner — akin to that of, say, Vija Celmins or Luc Tuymans.
The two - piece resin cast was an
apt tautology that mirrored the past, shimmered in the present, and anticipated no future.
Perhaps a documentary intention is derailed into the uncanny, or ironic reversals are instigated to create some kind of displacement, or cause and effect draw so close together, have so little breathing space between them, that
tautology emerges.