Sentence examples for tautological from inspiring English sources
The word "tautological" is correct in written English
It is used to describe a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form, often involving redundancy. Example: "Saying 'free gift' is tautological because a gift is inherently free."
adjective
Of, relating to, or using tautology
If one is dealing with first-order logic with equality, one has to replace "tautology" by "tautological consequence of substitution instances of the equality axioms"; following Shoenfield we will use the term "quasi-tautology" to describe such a formula. is a quasi-tautology.
According to such a view, tautologies are synonymous, even though (since Rudolf presumably has some tautological beliefs and lacks others) sentences resulting from embedding tautologies under 'Rudolf believes that…' are not.
Also, young people pay disproportionately for Social Security; people whose houses don't burn down pay disproportionately for fire insurance; people whose flights aren't canceled pay disproportionately for travel insurance; and so on.Ezra Klein has a more thorough debunking of Mr Smith's story, which shows that it's not only tautological if true, but possibly just plain not true.
Typically that leaves the other 60-odd pages free for annual-report perennials: maps of the world, giant font sizes, the vapid ("2007 was a year of transition") and the tautological ("future outlook").
Anti-economists who find it absurd would be nearer the mark if they called it a statement of the obvious.However, the assumption of self-interest is not entirely tautological.
Clever, Canada, tautological but clever.Britain presents an unusual example of a country that had very low immigration until the 1990s, when it made an abrupt and radical shift.
In fact, it strikes me as tautological that governments will have little trouble selling additional debt if its people want to buy more of it.
Chief Justice Roberts is famous for his faux-tautological contention that "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race".
A non-tautological sentence is meaningful, according to their slogan, just in case it is possible (at least in principle) to verify it empirically; indeed, the meaning of such a sentence just is its method of verification (see verifiability principle).
CNET led with the tautological-sounding "Smartwords aims to make readers smarter," promising that the new technology "could make you a whole lot more erudite".
In shielded contraction, some non-tautological beliefs cannot be given up; they are shielded from contraction.
