释义 |
tautologytau‧tol‧o‧gy /tɔːˈtɒlədʒi $ tɒːˈtɑː-/ noun (plural tautologies) [countable, uncountable] technical tautologyOrigin: 1500-1600 Late Latin tautologia, from Greek, from tautologos ‘repeating things’, from tauto ‘same’ + legein ‘to say’ - A gross tautology is at work here.
- It is therefore either a tautology or a fallacy to state that lack of entrepreneurial talent is the reason for poor growth.
- Since this requires that speakers be informative, the asserting of tautologies blatantly violates it.
- The uttering of simple and obvious tautologies should, in principle, have absolutely no communicative import.
- To me it was immediately apparent, a tautology, a verbal redundancy.
- Try to avoid repetition or tautology.
a statement in which you say the same thing twice using different words in a way which is not necessary, for example, ‘He sat alone by himself.’ → redundant—tautological /ˌtɔːtəˈlɒdʒɪkəl◂ $ ˌtɒːtəˈlɑː-/ (also tautologous /tɔːˈtɒləɡəs $ tɒːˈtɑː-/) adjective |