tautology

Signification (Anglais)

1. (uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
2. (countable) An expression that features tautology.
3. (countable) A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables.
4. (countable) A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.

Concepts

tautologie

lapalissade

pléonasme

truisme

Synonymes

repetition

pleonasm

redundancy

reiteration

restatement

verbosity

identically true formula

logical truth

necessary truth

universally valid formula

iteration

useless repetition

playback

recursion

Traductions

Tautologie

tautología

tautologia

tautologia

tautologie

tautologia

redundancia

ταυτολογία

pleonasmo

Pleonasmus

gereksiz tekrar

Doppelaussage

الحَشْو

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɔˈtɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Late Latin tautologia, from Ancient Greek ταὐτολογία (tautología) from ταὐτός (tautós, “the same”) + λόγος (lógos, “explanation”). By surface analysis, tauto- + -logy.