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- noun Plural form of
tautology .
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Examples
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The point is sometimes overlooked, because it might be thought that, if the propositions of logic are tautologies, that is only because we happen to have chosen a language in which tautologies are produced when certain propositions are combined.
A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy Pears, D.F. 1969
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I know that is not what people think when they use the expression “the workers are being exploited!” — people don’t usually speak in tautologies.
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The Austrian philosopher wrote it to illustrate how linguistic devices such as tautologies and contradictions represent a kind of debasement of language: rather than reinforce some logical system or reveal something to us about the world, they break down as constructed figures, and actually strip away meaning.
Portland Mercury 2009
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And yet the DJED sculptures communicate as effectively as minimalist tautologies as they do as maximalist mythopoetics.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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And yet the DJED sculptures communicate as effectively as minimalist tautologies as they do as maximalist mythopoetics.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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Carl goes with caricatures, you go with tautologies ... and as far as I can tell my point remains.
Hungering for some shallow analysis of Pope Benedict XVI? 2009
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But, he added, I must be sure to telephone the customer service department — surely the ne plus ultra of tautologies — to ascertain what has happened to my money.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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And what did you mean by the parenthesized “tautologies”?
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But, he added, I must be sure to telephone the customer service department — surely the ne plus ultra of tautologies — to ascertain what has happened to my money.
Fraud 2009
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And yet the DJED sculptures communicate as effectively as minimalist tautologies as they do as maximalist mythopoetics.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
sherry28 commented on the word tautologies
" Sometimes tautologies are the beginning of science , but they are never the end ." From: Why people believe weird things . Author: Micheal Shermer . Page 143.
November 22, 2010