point. Sometimes logical tautologies like "Boys will be boys" are conflated with language tautologies, but a language tautology is not inherently true,...
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Look up tautology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tautology may refer to: Tautology (language), a redundant statement in literature and rhetoric Tautology...
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In mathematical logic, a tautology (from Ancient Greek: ταυτολογία) is a formula that is true regardless of the interpretation of its component terms...
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Loaded language Moving the goalposts Persuasive definition Reification (fallacy) Republican in Name Only Special pleading Tautology (language) True Pole...
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is no way of changing it", which is no longer a tautology: "Structuring the sentiment as a tautology allows it to appear inescapable." At the same time...
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Hyperbole (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
of speech Litotes and meiosis, forms of deliberate understatement Tautology (language) "hyperbole". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved...
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Simile (section In languages other than English)
comparisons) Metaphor Metonymy Personification Phono-semantic matching Tautology (language) Simile aria The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms...
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Famous for being famous (category Popular culture language)
Keeping Up with the Kardashians Reality television Socialite Tarento Tautology (language) Jenkins, Joe (2002). Contemporary moral issues. Examining Religions...
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Redundancy (linguistics) (redirect from Redundancy (language))
formal speech Tautology (language) – In literary criticism, repeating an idea Bussmann, Hadumod (2006). Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics...
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Rhetorical device Repetition (rhetorical device) – Poetic device Tautology (language) – In literary criticism, repeating an idea Platitude – Trite, prosaic...
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Survival of the fittest (section Tautology)
Philosophy: A Good Tautology is Hard to Find by John Wilkins, part of the talk.origins archive. CA500: "Survival of the fittest is a tautology" from the talk...
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In logic, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics, a formal language consists of words whose letters are taken from an alphabet and are well-formed...
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physical objects, has him say: We get something similar when we write a tautology like "p → p". We formulate such expressions to get something in which...
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Logical truth (section Truth values and tautologies)
constants). Thus, logical truths such as "if p, then p" can be considered tautologies. Logical truths are thought to be the simplest case of statements which...
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Pleonasm (category Articles containing French-language text)
"the man he said," or "vibrating with motion." It is a manifestation of tautology by traditional rhetorical criteria and might be considered a fault of...
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statements are tautologies. A tautology is a statement that is necessarily true, true by definition, and true under any conditions. A tautology is a repetition...
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Lapalissade (category Articles containing French-language text)
truism or tautology—which produces a comical effect. It is derived from the name Jacques de la Palice, and the word is used in several languages. La Palice's...
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definition, every tautology is logically equivalent to the verum. The top type in type theory. Mixed radix encoding in the APL programming language. A lowered...
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Semantics (redirect from Natural language semantics)
"the morning star is the morning star", by contrast, is an uninformative tautology since the expressions are identical not only on the level of reference...
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Logic translation (redirect from Natural language formalization)
that all tautologies have the same truth conditions: they are true independently of the circumstances. This would imply that any tautology is a correct...
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Contradiction (redirect from False tautology)
simultaneously have to be "outside" the formal system in the definition of tautology. When Emil Post, in his 1921 "Introduction to a General Theory of Elementary...
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same linguistic reasons that cause many toponyms to be tautological. The tautology is not parsed by the mind in most instances of real-world use (in many...
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Figure of speech (redirect from Language techniques)
is exaggerated. "That filthy place was really dirty" is an example of tautology, as there are the two words ('filthy' and 'dirty') having almost the same...
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Boolean algebra (section Natural language)
algebra corresponds to the tautologies (Φ ∨ ¬Ψ) ∧ (¬Φ ∨ Ψ) and (Φ ∧ Ψ) ∨ (¬Φ ∧ ¬Ψ). If → is in the language, these last tautologies can also be written as...
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classical propositional tautologies. Formally a pps is a polynomial-time function P whose range is the set of all propositional tautologies (denoted TAUT). If...
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Metalanguage (redirect from Meta language)
and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to describe another language, often called the object language. Expressions in a metalanguage are often...
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NOP (code) (section Machine language instructions)
function – the functional programming equivalent to NOP IEFBR14 – mainframe tautology xyzzy (computing) – a command sometimes used instead of NOP X86 instruction...
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identified four characteristics of wooden language: abstraction and the avoidance of the concrete, tautologies, bad metaphors, and Manichaeism that divides...
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assertion that the name "Torpenhow Hill" is a quadruple etymological tautology. It concluded not only that Borgmann's etymology may be incorrect, but...
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facilitates the construction and checking of truth tables and related notions (tautology, tautological consequence, etc.); Fitch (named after Frederic Brenton...
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