tautologically
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9.0
- adverb
- /ˌtɔːtəˈlɑːdʒɪkli/
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tautológicamente
- He explained the concept tautologically, repeating that it was true by definition without adding any new information.
Examples
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In this, the book is analogous to Ruscha's paintings, which approximate written texts but fail to reduce to them tautologically.
Academic text (2005) -
I asked her, "Are you all right?" and ends them tautologically (Oct. 30, 1972: "Monday.").
Academic text (1999) -
We suppose, tautologically, that because things have always seemed the way they are, that they always have been the way they seem.
Blog text (15) -
JHK says: "We suppose, tautologically, that because things have always seemed the way they are, that they always have been the way they seem."
Blog text (15) -
A correct understanding of the meaning of knorr may be tautologically reiterated in the word for 'nailed,' although this is also poetic.
Academic text (1996) -
The voucher argument tautologically assumes that the voucher system would actually work to put black children into better schools than they'd attend otherwise; this is not a valid logical assumption in the absence of evidence.
Blog text (24) -
Ed Feser's anti-lying observation is such an obviously tautologically valid consequence of the premise that natural law categorically forbids lying, I don't see how anyone who agrees with him about natural law could even argue about it.
Blog text (12) -
The simulacrum of language is thereby fully charged with a metaphysic: it is essentially ontologically (tautologically) related to an originating Logos for which it pines even as it corresponds to it.
Academic text (2001) -
The professor's lecture was tautologically filled with statements that reiterated the same idea, making it hard to follow.
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When he said that a bachelor is an unmarried man, he was speaking tautologically, as it is a definition by itself.
Synonyms
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3.5
Again and again in the same way, often causing boredom or annoyance
In a way that repeats information or actions more than needed
Antonyms
How Redundant
Surface Forms
Morphology
tautologically = tautological (transparent) = tautology + ical + ly
The adverb is a regular and productive -ly formation from the adjective 'tautological'.
Etymology
Tautologically comes from Greek parts tauto- meaning 'same' and logos meaning 'word' or 'speech'. So, to speak tautologically is to say the same thing again or to state something that is 'true by definition', giving no new information.