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- In literary criticism and rhetoric, a tautology is a statement that repeats an idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words or phrases, effectively "saying...8 KB (885 words) - 00:09, 22 August 2024
- Look up tautology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tautology may refer to: Tautology (language), a redundant statement in literature and rhetoric Tautology...594 bytes (100 words) - 16:54, 13 June 2023
- redundancies of propositional logic in 1921, borrowing from rhetoric, where a tautology is a repetitive statement. In logic, a formula is satisfiable...21 KB (2,981 words) - 04:37, 21 July 2024
- Performative contradiction Principle of contradiction Self-refuting idea Tautology (rhetoric) Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879). "A Latin Dictionary"...15 KB (1,887 words) - 20:22, 20 August 2024
- on truth Revision theory Slingshot argument Subjectivity Tautology (logic) Tautology (rhetoric) Theory of justification Truth prevails Truthiness Unity...105 KB (13,169 words) - 13:45, 25 August 2024
- tartarology The study of the underworld or doctrine pertaining to Hell. tautology (rhetoric) A self-reinforcing pretense of significant truth. (grammar) The...149 KB (778 words) - 10:45, 28 August 2024
- with falsifying facts, is transformed while you wait into an impotent tautology: if ostensible Scotsmen put sugar on their porridge, then this is by itself...7 KB (867 words) - 12:14, 1 August 2024
- Pleonasm (category Rhetoric)"the man he said," or "vibrating with motion." It is a manifestation of tautology by traditional rhetorical criteria and might be considered a fault of...55 KB (7,749 words) - 21:37, 18 August 2024
- Glossary of rhetorical terms (redirect from Glossary of rhetoric)bed = show yourself) Taste – a learned admiration for things of beauty. Tautology – the same idea repeated in different words. Techne – a true art. Technobabble...31 KB (4,016 words) - 07:25, 26 July 2024
- essential words". By implying more than is said, it is distinguished from tautology and understatement. Brevitas is related to concision, parataxis, sprezzatura...2 KB (115 words) - 22:18, 18 May 2024
- the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis (literally 'growth'). In poetry...8 KB (871 words) - 13:27, 31 July 2024
- Lapalissade (category Rhetoric)A lapalissade is an obvious truth—i.e. a truism or tautology—which produces a comical effect. It is derived from the name Jacques de la Palice, and the...4 KB (388 words) - 05:22, 10 July 2024
- Platitude (category Rhetoric)is no way of changing it", which is no longer a tautology: "Structuring the sentiment as a tautology allows it to appear inescapable." At the same time...5 KB (616 words) - 01:04, 27 July 2024
- Figure of speech (category Rhetoric)is exaggerated. "That filthy place was really dirty" is an example of tautology, as there are the two words ('filthy' and 'dirty') having almost the same...25 KB (3,025 words) - 18:37, 18 July 2024
- RAS syndrome (category Rhetoric)same linguistic reasons that cause many toponyms to be tautological. The tautology is not parsed by the mind in most instances of real-world use (in many...10 KB (889 words) - 08:09, 12 August 2024
- Truism (category Rhetoric)Dictum Dogma Figure of speech Maxim Moral Platitude Synthetic proposition Tautology "Definition: truism". Webster's Online Dictionary. Archived from the original...2 KB (187 words) - 23:55, 10 May 2024
- Tautophrase (category Rhetoric stubs)speech) – Rhetorical device Repetition (rhetorical device) – Poetic device Tautology (language) – In literary criticism, repeating an idea Platitude – Trite...2 KB (289 words) - 02:38, 29 August 2024
- verifiable (i.e. confirmed through the senses) or a truth of logic (e.g., tautologies). Verificationism rejects statements of metaphysics, theology, ethics...17 KB (1,944 words) - 13:44, 15 July 2024
- Redundancy (linguistics) (category Rhetoric)descriptions of redirect targets Stilted speech – Unusually formal speech Tautology (language) – In literary criticism, repeating an idea Bussmann, Hadumod...6 KB (696 words) - 18:33, 12 February 2024
- can be shown to be a logical truth by either (a) showing that it is a tautology or (b) by means of a proof procedure. The corresponding conditional of...32 KB (4,257 words) - 19:11, 26 August 2024
- pour forth extempore prayer for two or three hours together ‘without tautology.’ He died on 22 Jan. 1696. He married a daughter of Ferdinando Pool (d
- anti-Darwinists and even some great Darwinists, to claim that is a tautology. A tautology like ‘All tables are tables’ is not, of course, testable; nor has
- pdf. Galant J. Fashion Triumphant and the Mechanism of Tautology in Two Nineteenth-Century Dystopias. Utopian Studies. 2017 [cited 2020