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tautologyIn logic, a statement that cannot be denied without inconsistency. Thus, “All bachelors are either male or not male” is held to assert, with regard to anything whatsoever that is a bachelor, that it is male or it is not male. In the propositional calculus, even complicated symbolic expressions such as [(A ⊃ B) ∧ (C ⊃ ¬ B)] ⊃ (C ⊃ ¬ A) can be shown to be tautologies by displaying in a truth table every possible combination of T (true) and F (false) of its arguments A, B, C. A tautology can be purely formal (a statement form rather than a statement), and in some usages only such formal truths are tautologies. tautology Logic a statement that is always true, esp a truth-functional expression that takes the value true for all combinations of values of its components, as in either the sun is out or the sun is not out
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Here again, "the major factors that form a worldview" are breezily asserted and iterated tautologically as if they are self-evident without any informative clarification of the complex interplay of these factors and how they collectively come about to "shape" a worldview. Another mode of such "writing" was later effected by way of the artist's signature dots, which seemed to serve as effusive punctuation marks (sometimes rather tautologically effacing faces). It was not just that the print size diminished by several points but also there were sentences such as 'structural linguistics, structural anthropology, hermeneutics, and phenomenology mapped the topological nature of cultural systems but - tautologically - remained a closed system or a synthetic, often capricious analytical system consistent with subjectivity'. |
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