tautology

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

tautologia

pleonasmo

Tautologia

Tautologia lógica

Tautologia matemática

Sinônimos

repetition

pleonasm

redundancy

reiteration

restatement

verbosity

identically true formula

logical truth

necessary truth

universally valid formula

iteration

useless repetition

playback

recursion

Traduções

tautologie

Tautologie

tautología

tautologia

tautologie

tautologia

redundancia

pleonasmo

ταυτολογία

lapalissade

Doppelaussage

Pleonasmus

gereksiz tekrar

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/tɔˈtɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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