Tautology
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Tautology may refer to:
- Tautology (language), redundant statements in literature and rhetoric
- Tautology (logic), a universal truth in formal logic
- Tautology (rule of inference), a rule of replacement for logical expressions
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Etymology
From Late Latin tautologia, from Ancient Greek ταυτολογία (tautología) from ταὐτός (tautós, “the same”) + λόγος (lógos, “explanation”)
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See also
- Genre theory, corpus and tautology
- Pleonasm
- Tautological (disambiguation)
- Tautonym
- Tautonym, a species name where both parts are identical
- Truism, an assertion that is so obvious as to add nothing to a discussion.
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