Examples of 'tautology' in a sentence

Meaning of "tautology"

tautology (noun): A statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form, such as 'a bachelor is an unmarried man.'
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  • Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
  • An expression that features tautology.
  • A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables.
  • A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.

How to use "tautology" in a sentence

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Every tautology itself shows that it is a tautology.
Thus by definition our formula is not a tautology.
Tautology and contradiction are not pictures of the reality.
By now that point too is virtually a tautology.
Tautology creates a dead motionless world.
Thank for you for the tautology.
Tautology should not be used in definitions.
In that sense the word dependence is a tautology.
A tautology is a statement that repeats itself.
A compound proposition that is always true is a tautology.
Arc men a tautology which is sometimes worth remembering.
But this prediction is close to a tautology.
The tautology is the conceptual equivalent of the monochrome.
The case where a tautology is in place.
A tautology is where the predicate is already in the subject.

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The condition a appears to be a tautology and therefore true.
Tautology means saying the same thing twice.
Tom tautologically said that tautological tautology is tautological.
Tautology and pleonasm are not consistently differentiated in the literature.
It is the disjunction of these two expressions which is a tautology.
Everything is a tautology with you.
That kind of statement is called tautology.
The fundamental definition of a tautology is in the context of propositional logic.
This is more than a mere tautology.
This sounds like a tautology but let me explain further.
The first principle is almost a tautology.
Look up what tautology means.
This destiny would be to aspire to the condition of tautology.
The phrase can not be a tautology if it is not trivially true.
We now have a very strange tautology.
So too it is a tautology nor a contradiction.
But now we are back to the tautology.
A tautology is a thing which is tautological.
Prove that the proposition is a tautology.
That is not a tautology either.
That much is so patently true that it borders on tautology.
A tautology without any meaning.
It seems to be offered as some kind of tautology.
But this explanation is a tautology at best and wrong at worst.
Sam has claimed that natural selection is a tautology.
Tautology is what is necessarily true.
This is the definition of a classic tautology.
A tautology does not say anything.
The principle of causality is really a tautology.
A compound proposition that is neither a tautology nor a contradiction is a contingency.
And they say survival of the fittest is a tautology.
I think you have created a tautology where none exists.
The unnecessary repetition of an idea or a word is called tautology.
That pair of statements is not the tautology it may seem to be.
Degeneration reveals degeneration if you will forgive the tautology.

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