point. Sometimes logical tautologies like "Boys will be boys" are conflated with language tautologies, but a language tautology is not inherently true,...
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Look up tautology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tautology may refer to: Tautology (language), a redundant statement in literature and rhetoric Tautology...
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In mathematical logic, a tautology (from Ancient Greek: ταυτολογία) is a formula that is true regardless of the interpretation of its component terms...
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Loaded language Moving the goalposts Persuasive definition Reification (fallacy) Republican in Name Only Special pleading Tautology (language) True Pole...
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is no way of changing it", which is no longer a tautology: "Structuring the sentiment as a tautology allows it to appear inescapable." At the same time...
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Simile (section In languages other than English)
comparisons) Metaphor Metonymy Personification Phono-semantic matching Tautology (language) Simile aria The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms...
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Hyperbole (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
of speech Litotes and meiosis, forms of deliberate understatement Tautology (language) "hyperbole". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved...
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Famous for being famous (category Popular culture language)
Keeping Up with the Kardashians Reality television Socialite Tarento Tautology (language) Jenkins, Joe (2002). Contemporary moral issues. Examining Religions...
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Redundancy (linguistics) (redirect from Redundancy (language))
formal speech Tautology (language) – In literary criticism, repeating an idea Bussmann, Hadumod (2006). Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics...
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Rhetorical device Repetition (rhetorical device) – Poetic device Tautology (language) – In literary criticism, repeating an idea Platitude – Trite, prosaic...
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