All 8 Uses
tautology
in
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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- Are you going to bore me with your tautologies all day or are you going to actually say something?†
Chpt 12
- Tautologies?†
Chpt 12
- What the heck were tautologies?†
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- You don't know what a tautology is, do you?" he asked.†
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- What is a tautology?†
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- "A tautology is a repetition of the same sense in different words," he said.†
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- 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.†
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- That's not exactly a tautology, but it is funny.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(tautology as with: a linguistic tautology) useless repetition in different words (such as "unmarried bachelor")
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(2)
(tautology as with: a logical tautology) a statement that is necessarily true (such as "She will win the election or she won't.")
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)