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tautologies
Variant of tautology
noun pl. tautologies
- needless repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence; redundancy; pleonasm (Ex.: “necessary essentials”)
- an instance of such repetition
- Logic a proposition that is analytic (sense )
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