tautologies in English

noun
1
the saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g., they arrived one after the other in succession ).
It is conceivable that the key to truth lies in tautology and redundancy.

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1. Since this requires that speakers be informative, the asserting of tautologies blatantly violates it.

2. 6 Since this requires that speakers be informative, the asserting of tautologies blatantly violates it.

3. 5 The uttering of simple and obvious tautologies should, in principle, have absolutely no communicative import.

4. In Against the Academicians (386) he claimed that, if nothing else, humans know disjunctive tautologies such as “Either there is one world or there is not one world” and “Either the world is finite or it is infinite.” Humans also know …