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Definition of Tautological

1. Adjective. Repetition of same sense in different words. "At the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"

Definition of Tautological

1. a. Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression.

Definition of Tautological

1. Adjective. of, relating to, or using tautology ¹

2. Adjective. using repetition or excessive wordiness; pleonastic or circumlocutionary ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tautological

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Tautological

1. Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression. Tautolog"ically, Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the same sound or syllable many times. Origin: Cf. F. Tautologique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Tautological

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"A tautological judgment is one in which the subject and predicate are ... Identical judgments, as distinguished from tautological, are those in which, ..."

2. An English Miscellany: Presented to Dr. Furnivall in Honour of His Seventy by William Paton Ker, Frederick James Furnivall, Arthur Sampson Napier, Walter William Skeat (1901)
"tautological COMPOUNDS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SOME tautological compounds, ie combinations of entirely synonymous words, of the Gothic and the High German ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Herein is a guarantee which, for the Mechanists, is well worth all theoretical proofs. be provisional, tautological, and therefore misleading. ..."

4. Essays on the Philosophy of Theism by William George Ward (1884)
"Our readers will remember that, towards the beginning of our essay, we drew a distinction between "tautological" and " significant" propositions. ..."

5. Essays on the Philosophy of Theism by William George Ward (1884)
"Our readers will remember that, towards the beginning of our essay, we drew a distinction between " tautological" and " significant" propositions. ..."

6. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1881)
"The so-called Principle of identity, if understood in a sense not tautological, cannot be the ultimate Principle in order of reduction. PROLEGOMENON. ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... in its natural sense it is not true; if it relates to relevancy in a narrow and artificial sense, as equivalent to admissible, it is tautological. ..."

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