Sentence examples for tautological statements from inspiring English sources

This would be a major problem for evolutionary biology, if true, because tautological statements can't be falsified and, therefore, can't be scientific.

Here are a number of examples of tautological statements about natural selection from Coyne's and Dawkins' books: Coyne states (ref. 2, p. 116): "Natural selection, we find, is everywhere, scrutinizing individuals, culling the unfit and promoting the genes of the fitter.

One way of confirming that tautological statement is to compare "Made Possible" with another new piano, bass and drums album, credited to the Dave King Trio.

It is not fortuitous that one never encounters the opposite, and equally tautological, statement: " A significant difference between groups has been detected; however, perhaps with a smaller sample size, this difference would have proved to be not significant".

In real life, that's a terrible, tautological argument.

You wanted a tautological argument, so there you go.

Because it's a tautological argument, everybody usually has a different opinion (Is Facebook a tech company? Is Path?).

"They develop this tautological, confounded argument, none of which is true.

If we mean, acting to pursue our interest in the widest sense, then the statement is tautological (2010b, 93n).

This statement is tautological, because by definition when the transformative technology is available it will transform our energy system.

There is thus no merit in talking about natural selection as a process – even this statement is arguably tautological because "natural selection" and "process" reduce to the same thing in this context (A = A).