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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...

Look up tautology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tautology may refer to: Tautology (language), a redundant statement in literature and rhetoric Tautology...

redundancies of propositional logic in 1921, borrowing from rhetoric, where a tautology is a repetitive statement. In logic, a formula is satisfiable...

Performative contradiction Principle of contradiction Self-refuting idea Tautology (rhetoric) Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879). "A Latin Dictionary"...

on truth Revision theory Slingshot argument Subjectivity Tautology (logic) Tautology (rhetoric) Theory of justification Truth prevails Truthiness Unity...

tartarology The study of the underworld or doctrine pertaining to Hell. tautology (rhetoric) A self-reinforcing pretense of significant truth. (grammar) The...

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...

"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...

bed = show yourself) Taste – a learned admiration for things of beauty. Tautology – the same idea repeated in different words. Techne – a true art. Technobabble...

essential words". By implying more than is said, it is distinguished from tautology and understatement. Brevitas is related to concision, parataxis, sprezzatura...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dictum Dogma Figure of speech Maxim Moral Platitude Synthetic proposition Tautology "Definition: truism". Webster's Online Dictionary. Archived from the original...

speech) – Rhetorical device Repetition (rhetorical device) – Poetic device Tautology (language) – In literary criticism, repeating an idea Platitude – Trite...

verifiable (i.e. confirmed through the senses) or a truth of logic (e.g., tautologies). Verificationism rejects statements of metaphysics, theology, ethics...

descriptions of redirect targets Stilted speech – Unusually formal speech Tautology (language) – In literary criticism, repeating an idea Bussmann, Hadumod...

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...