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Definition of Tautologous
1. a. Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological.
Definition of Tautologous
1. Adjective. Pertaining to a tautology; tautological. ¹
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Definition of Tautologous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tautologous
Literary usage of Tautologous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1849)
"... and put the fame matter in a new form, the tautologous only repeat the ...
Whether in thinking or in teaching, the tautologous judgments are ..."
2. Vocabulary of Philosophy: Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical, with by William Fleming, Henry Calderwood (1890)
"... They have further been classified as Analytic, Synthetic, and Identical, or
tautologous (qv) (see ..."