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词汇 tautology
释义 tautology
noun[ C or U ]
uk /tɔːˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/ us /tɑːˈtɑː.lə.dʒi/
the use of two words or phrases that express the same meaning, in a way that is unnecessary and usually unintentional: 同义反复;冗词,赘述
No one talks about "creative music", because it would be a tautology.
Try to avoid repetition or tautology.
in logic (= a formal scientific method of examining ideas), a statement that is always true:
There are the propositions of science and ordinary language on the one hand, and the tautologies of maths and logic on the other.
More often than not, "heroic heroes" (note the tautology here) have been blessed from the start.
As a "working mum" - there's a tautology - I write whenever I can.
The laws of physics are merely useful tautologies.
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Examples of tautology


tautology
This statement is not a tautology, but one that purports to add to our understanding of the causal role of anger.
As can be seen, each equivalential classical tautology has an even length.
A tautology is a proposition which is true under all truth-value assignments.
On occasions, this bound might still be somewhat conservative, for example if the proposition tested is a tautology or depends on previous case splits.
This approach leads to a tautology where the exposure (trauma) is automatically linked to the outcome (symptoms).
If i 1 the consequent is to be understood as any tautology.
Despite being a tautology the term 'urbanism', in the sense of 'architectural urbanism', has been a successful rhetoric for architecture over the last two decades.
This is the approach we take to determine the asymptotic fraction of intuitionistic tautologies among all types of a given length.
However, it is possible to determine superior and inferior limits for the fractions of tautologies, which seems to be worth knowing.
But, this understanding cannot serve as a definition of probability, at least if we insist that definitions not be tautologies.
Isn't a high standard of excellence a tautology?
That selfhood among the oppressed emerges from, as well as generates, protest and freedomfighting is now a conventional tautology.
What was the point of stating a tautology at that point?
Aside from leaning toward tautology, this strategy seems contradicted by the authors' discussion of other distinctions in sensory resources, sensory deficits, and crossspecies differences.
The term 'constitutional democracy' can be interpreted as either an oxymoron or a tautology.
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