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It is an intentional tautology as when Gertrude Stein said "A rose is a rose is a rose."
tautology = useless repetition
- As a logical proposition, that paragraph can be reduced to the following: Because A, therefore A--the sort of tautology that would get any high school student a failing grade. (source)
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She didn't prove anything. It's a tautology to propose as a premise that "All men are pigs," and that "Bob is therefore a pig because he's a man." The "proof" is in the premise--which is to say, there is no proof.
tautology = a statement that is necessarily true
- ...the definition of 'self-interest' as the pursuit of the fulfillment of preferences is a tautology. (source)
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- That's not exactly a tautology, but it is funny.† (source)
- For it was this idiotic tautology ( Long live life!† (source)
- That would seem to be a tautology.† (source)
- My analytics instructor says that all logic is mere tautology.† (source)
- "A tautology is a repetition of the same sense in different words," he said.† (source)
- You don't know what a tautology is, do you?" he asked.† (source)
- Are you going to bore me with your tautologies all day or are you going to actually say something?† (source)
- Oh, so if I said something like, 'Gordy is a dick without ears and an ear without a dick,' then that would be a tautology.† (source)
- What is a tautology?† (source)
- What the heck were tautologies?† (source)
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- Tautologies?† (source)
- For the ascetic Spirit—if he might be permitted a tautology—the Spirit that denied and destroyed the world, was nobility itself, the aristocratic principle in its purest form; it could never be popular, and indeed the Church had been essentially unpopular throughout the ages.† (source)
- The whole of this objection is but another expression of the tautology: that there can no longer be any wage-labour when there is no longer any capital.† (source)
- —Methodical, or well arranged, or very well delivered, it could not be expected to be; but it contained, when separated from all the feebleness and tautology of the narration, a substance to sink her spirit—especially with the corroborating circumstances, which her own memory brought in favour of Mr. Knightley's most improved opinion of Harriet.† (source)
- And through getting acquainted with him, you see—why—I got acquainted with her,' said Plornish tautologically.† (source)
- The declaration itself, though it may be chargeable with tautology or redundancy, is at least perfectly harmless.† (source)
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