Tautology
11tautology — Technically, a formula of the propositional calculus that is true whatever the truth value assigned to its constituent propositional variables. (A tautology is thus valid, or true in all interpretations .) In more informal contexts a tautology is …
12tautology — [[t]tɔːtɒ̱ləʤi[/t]] tautologies N VAR Tautology is the use of different words to say the same thing twice in the same statement. The money should be adequate enough is an example of tautology …
13tautology — UK [tɔːˈtɒlədʒɪ] / US [tɔˈtɑlədʒɪ] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms tautology : singular tautology plural tautologies linguistics a statement, sentence etc in which the meaning is repeated in an unnecessary way by using different words …
14tautology — noun (plural gies) Etymology: Late Latin tautologia, from Greek, from tautologos Date: 1574 1. a. needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word b. an instance of tautology 2. a tautologous statement …
15tautology — The use of words to repeat (unnecessarily) the same statement or meaning. For example, the statement that ‘Britain is an island and surrounded by water’ is a tautology, since islands are by definition so described. Tautological explanations are… …
16tautology — noun avoid such tautology as let s all work together, everyone, as a team by saying simply let s work together Syn: pleonasm, repetition, reiteration, redundancy, superfluity, duplication …
17tautology — /totolajiy/ Describing the same thing twice in one sentence in equivalent terms; a fault in rhetoric. It differs from repetition or iteration, which is repeating the same sentence in the same or equivalent terms; the latter is sometimes either… …
18Tautology (logic) — In propositional logic, a tautology (from the Greek word ταυτολογία) is a propositional formula that is true under any possible valuation (also called a truth assignment or an interpretation) of its propositional variables. For example, the… …
19Tautology (rhetoric) — In rhetoric, a tautology is an unnecessary (and usually unintentional) repetition of meaning, using different words that effectively say the same thing twice (often originally from different languages). It is often regarded as a fault of style… …
20tautology — См. tautologìa …
