| 单词 | tautology |
| 例句 | “A tautology is a repetition of the same sense in different words,” he said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Are you going to bore me with your tautologies all day or are you going to actually say something?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not exactly a tautology, but it is funny. You have a singular wit.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z That was a point; could not tautology exaggerate it? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “You don’t know what a tautology is, do you?” he asked. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Far from being a goofball tautology, that declaration is a shrewd assessment of monarchy management in an era when image rules supreme. Queen Elizabeth II Sets a Style Standard 2012-06-01T16:59:27Z On its own, the phrase delivers an existential tautology that pretty much sums up the nature and purpose of art. Lawrence Weiner's work at Regen Projects: It's all spelled out 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z It is the tautology of the rich investing and reinvesting in ever more expensive productions. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z The film’s central paradox, Schrader says, is the “tautology of the jihadist: that there is such a thing as a ‘glorious’ suicide.” Paul Schrader, the writer of ‘Taxi Driver,’ shifts gears with ‘First Reformed’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z There are no real generalities that can be made about a group of 50,000 people that are not tautologies. Burning Man on its last legs 2012-10-14T14:00:00Z Still, you mustn’t look at that idea too closely or you’ll wind up trapped in a perplexing tautology: Because married people are their own worst enemies they had better learn to destroy themselves. Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Hitler’s speeches were analyzed in schools — “alliteration by alliteration, tautology by tautology, neologism by neologism,” Krug writes — to unpack how the German language was “potentially dangerous.” A Visual Memoir Asks What It Means for Germany to Reckon With Its Past 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Does that tautology make Transformers 2 a great movie? 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z I just say “the novel”; which isn’t an answer, it’s a tautology — but a necessary one maybe. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z To quote one of my favorite tautologies, from David Mamet’s “Heist”: “Everybody wants money. That’s why they call it money.” ‘The Deuce’ Season 1, Episode 3: Making It and Faking It 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z The script – occasional tautology aside – is plain, serviceable stuff, measured out and cut by the yard. Harbour Lives – review 2013-07-13T06:01:05Z They are the athletic equivalent of a tautology—a turning point that simply turned, and turned. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z For many, Italian haute cuisine is a tautology, but Mr Bottura succeeds with his interpretations of food because they are playful, elegant and delicious. Kitchen bwana 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z It is a logical tautology, which is defined as “a self-reinforcing pretense of significant truth.” Gene Weingarten: I gave this Beatles classic another listen. Big mistake. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s a beautiful tautology: a true-to-life movie about a life made for movies. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s tautology time: if you like this sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing you’ll like. Pushing Things Forward in Choral Music 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z And in the process, he played us all into the great game, the cosmic tautology, of an existence in love with itself. Review | Vincent van Gogh’s early work was mediocre. This exhibition shows how he became great. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z I often seem to arrive at a tautology: Digestive liqueurs are so categorized because you drink them after a meal. Overeating on Thanksgiving? Bitters can make it better. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z And it pointed out that BuzzFeed’s world news editor and reporter, Hayes Brown, tweeted last month, “Donald Trump’s policy proposals are almost entirely made up of racism, tautologies, and racist tautologies.” #Biased? Reporters on Twitter don’t hold back about Trump. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z To describe as doomed a love that begins in 1938 between two European women is to risk tautology. For This Lesbian Romance, World War II Is Just One Complication 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z At times, this seems like tautology — it’s hard to imagine a war of any kind that wouldn’t fit this description. Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The McSmiths are also undeterred by the seeming tautology of presenting comic reinterpretations of comedies. The One Where It’s a Live Musical Parody of Your Favorite TV Show 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z He’s gone past contradiction, beyond tautology, into infallibility. The Three Faces of Trump 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z I thought it was sort of a tautology. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z Guggenheim's recommendations in "Waiting for 'Superman'" approach tautology, as when he urges us to "celebrate great teachers," "ensure world-class standards" and "raise literacy rates." "Waiting for 'Superman'": Can public education be saved? 2010-09-23T01:01:00Z Take away perspective and you are stranded in a universal present, something akin, weirdly, to the unhistoried — and, at the risk of tautology, perspective-less — art of the Middle Ages. Andreas Gursky's photos visually articulate the world around us, framing modern society 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z This has left us with a tautology, since we must now describe male identity as “masculine.” When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The problem with this narrative is that it’s just a pejorative tautology. Opinion | An inflation conspiracy theory is infecting the Democratic Party 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Blaming “high prices” on “profiteering” isn’t an explanation; it’s a tautology. Opinion | Both parties neglect to propose a solution that might actually lower gas prices 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The anthropic principle is a tautology masquerading as a truth, but it has proved remarkably resilient. Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Offices have long been something of a tautology: Companies have needed offices because to be a company, you had to have an office. They Want You Back at the Office 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z When I asked McConnell why, he offered only a tautology: “The way I expressed myself was the way I thought I ought to express myself.” Mitch McConnell Got Everything He Wanted. But at What Cost? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z In lieu of an answer, they offered a tautology. “Audition” 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The works display recurring tics of Trump-like language, comfort with cynicism, talent for tautology, weakness for flattery and freakish rhetorical and moral contortions. Review | I read six sycophantic pro-Trump books — and then I read Omarosa 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z A tautology—that the whole is the sum of its parts—is central to an understanding of why this is so. The growth of index investing has not made markets less efficient 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z If I read him right, what Wood is effectively saying is that the “Comic Novel” is a tautology presented as a unique selling point. Has fiction lost its sense of humour? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z And what can you do with a line like “her face once again becomes a poker-face wall,” except revel in its delicious tautology? Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s Concussive Collaboration 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s a tautology, but memes are popular objects, which explains why objects can become memes when they’re popular. Are your shoes too trendy? Menswear communities are probably calling them ‘memes’ 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z "It's a tautology: Whatever I'm doing is draining the swamp, by definition." Trump shifts meaning of 'Drain the Swamp' from ethics to anything he objects to 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Plainly put, a berry is the fruition of a flower — the ultimate tautology. Tasting the Sweetness of Summer, Berry by Berry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z It evidently took more time than expected for the implications to sink in – to understand that “Brexit means Brexit,” as May’s pithy tautology put it. The experts strike back! How economists are being proved right on Brexit 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z She left the reporters, basically, with a tautology: the story had changed because the President said something different, but what the President said was always true. The Threat in President Trump’s Interview with Lester Holt 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z This is a diagnosis that verges on mere tautology. Video Games Aren’t Addictive 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z So the Times is now reporting—in the science section!—on people’s dreams, as a lead-in to the tautology that floods tend to occur after storms. Trump Tweets the Darnedest Things 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z It was a fudge and a tautology – anyone whom history remembers is a massive figure in history – but he chose a side eventually, praising Castro’s “heroism”, “for all his flaws”. Forget Fidel Castro’s policies. What matters is that he was a dictator | Zoe Williams 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z This is a tautology, equivalent to saying one plans to weigh less in the future through a combination of losing weight and not gaining weight. Trump’s Muse on U.S. Trade with China 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z By the way, the bilious billionaire’s answer on bringing back manufacturing jobs was a Trumpian tautology: “The first thing you do is don’t let the jobs leave.” Walter Shapiro Donald Trump and the second battle of the sexes 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Amenities/pubs/anything sounds like tautology to me. French Open 2016: Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams – live! 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Sanders' revolution is one of tautology: The main evidence that he's leading an irresistible mass movement is that he says he's leading an irresistible mass movement. The Revolution Will Be Fantasized 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The first sentence of the latter paragraph verges on tautology. Washington’s Willful Ignorance 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Stephanopoulos chuckled a bit at the tautology, but allowed Fiorina to continue, asking her whether she thought that the Republicans on the committee “fell down on the job.” Fact-challenged Carly Fiorina learned nothing from yesterday’s Benghazi hearings, urges GOP to intensify attacks on Clinton 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z That rich people can afford to buy nicer things isn’t a scandal, it’s a tautology. ‘Your Damn Emails’ 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Amenities/pubs/anything sounds like tautology to me. French Open 2016: Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams – live! 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z This bias leads to some uncharacteristically infelicitous sentences and more than a few tautologies: “Instead of the essentially spiritual outlook of medievalism, the new humanism regarded life and the world from a more human perspective.” Spiritual leader of a medieval city in crisis 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Linguistically, it's a tautology - some use the form tautophrase - that tells you nothing about the world when taken literally. How people started saying 'It ain't over till it's over' - BBC News 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The tautology is easily confused for a moral claim that people deserve what they are paid. Robert Reich: America’s economy is a nightmare of our own making 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The herd follows and justifies its actions with tautologies like “the trend is your friend” and meaningless mantras like “don’t fight the Fed.” What The Contrarians Are Thinking Now 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Importantly, this view would be very much informed by the tautology that is supply-side economics. What Would Stimulate The Economy More? Tax Cuts Or Spending Reductions? 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z They must be given the tautology that the very economic freedom that has produced so much wealth also produces enormous inequality. The Beatles And Wealth Inequality: A Reminder That Education Is Irrelevant To Success 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z “Why would they keep inviting me back,” he asked in a tautology. For Republicans, It’s Governors Vs. Senators He replied: "It was in the Daily Mail so what do you think? 'Is it nonsense or not?' is a bit of tautology if something appears in the Daily Mail, is it not?" Salmond will not challenge Alexander 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z I will still reserve that "dead man killed" could be a tautology, but common usage weighs against me. Nothin’ Matters and What if It Did 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z "This report is an astonishing exercise in tautology," said Annette Bernhardt, a visiting researcher at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment/Labor Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Retail group's report aims to counter wage 'misperceptions' 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z What the judges see as a “tautology” is a sign that something is seriously wrong with the Texas law. Fractions of Women in Texas 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z That tautology, which sustains a good part of the league’s popularity, may not be in jeopardy yet, but the opacity that allows such seemingly absurd statements to make sense, has been compromised. Are You Ready for Some Football? 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z On the one hand, this is a tautology. IRS Testifies to Congress: 'Wherever We Can, We Follow The Law' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Back to prices, the fact that they’re constantly falling in growing, vibrant economies is a tautology. The Alleged Threat Of 'Deflation' In Europe Is Y2K Silly 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The “trickle down” effect denied by lefty politicians and economists is a tautology. Rich Cohen, And The Economic Story Inside The Wild Heart Of The 1985 Chicago Bears 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z To be clear, “insider trading” or the accession of “inside information” is a tautology in the NFL. The Stock-Market Story Behind The Intensive Inquisition Of Johnny Manziel 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z This is what passes for significant thought in the GOP: new scare facts colliding with new anecdotes of meetin’ folks, all to explain re-synonymized tautologies. Paul Ryan's American Idea is Mad Libs with a thesaurus full of conservative lies 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z This is almost a tautology: Conservatives want to keep things as they are, while revolutions turn things upside down. A brilliant and shrewd statesman And then there's the tautology: blending explains creativity, Turner says, but people “createblends.” MIND Reviews: The Origin of Ideas 2014-03-07T15:00:00Z I do not ‘insist’ that taxation and regulation debase the rights of the individual, it is a tautology. Inequality: A defining issue, for poor people 2013-12-16T18:23:07Z It’s a tautology that causes us trouble, and yet it lingers. Debate on Evolution of Multicellular Organisms Starts to Gain Focus 2013-09-30T22:45:00.843Z Hess took a Bible verse that speaks to a believer’s liberty of conscience and turned it toward a hive-minded tautology: “We will transform culture to the extent that we are a transforming community,” he said. Ditto boys: An elite Christian education 2013-09-15T17:00:00Z Well, one possible lesson would be that some Australian young men are uncultured oafs but then that would be a tautology. Links 09 Sept. Perhaps Everyone Should Grow Up About The Titstare Rumpus 2013-09-09T15:20:00Z The tautology is titillating, and she’s released from guilt over her keeping the secret. Mad Men Watch: Help Wanting 2013-04-15T11:00:00Z It answers the question why are we here? with a tautology: because we are. Physicists Debate the Many Varieties of Nothingness 2013-03-22T22:45:05.650Z This is where my own tautology kicks in. Galaxy S4 Contrasts Samsung's Maximalism With Apple's Minimalism 2013-03-17T14:46:26Z For the present the tautology applies: Britain's advantage is to renegotiate a deal with Europe that is to Britain's advantage. Europe: no more talk of in-or-out. Let's think opt-outs| Simon Jenkins 2013-01-15T20:45:00Z The rest of his plan—and Romney’s—consists of a tautology and an evasion. One Thing Romney and Obama Agree On: Big Government 2012-08-17T10:00:27Z In a contentious campaign, speaking in bland tautologies can be a useful skill. Uncompromised: Why Scott Walker Survived His Recall 2012-06-06T04:35:34Z Chow’s conclusion is not just obvious—it’s a tautology. The Mathematician's Obesity Fallacy 2012-05-15T23:45:02.093Z In this way is best seen the utter tautology of a statement that the entropy of the world increases with the time. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z It may not, however, be superfluous to point out a little more precisely the special form his tautology assumes. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z To speak of the goodness of God, either implies that there is such a quality as goodness, to which the Divine acts conform, or it is an unmeaning tautology. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z That the citizens are equal before the law contains a great truth, but which so expressed is a tautology: it only states that the legal status in general exists, that the laws rule. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Any one, then, who maintains that mathematics is founded solely on logical principles would appear to maintain that mathematics, in the last instance, reduces to a huge tautology. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z Existence itself is dispersed into nothingness through the infinite divisibility of space and time, while the law of the sufficient reason loses itself in barren tautology and the infinite regress. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The inelegance and tautology of this definition I pass by; but why should he profane the names of Milton and Shakespeare to support such monstrous nonsense? Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Coincidence is either mere tautology or something entirely empirical, which belongs not to pure intuition but to external sensuous experience. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z My respected father—let me shorten the dutiful tautology by substituting in future M. R. F., which sounds military, and rather like the Duke of Wellington.” Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z “The milk pails were on the fence twice, Lady Blue, that is tautology.” Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z So when you find a group of women, children and poor people being preached to by a man, you have your real priest - the tautology 'fake priest', notwithstanding! Elizabeth Ohene: Fake prophets 2011-06-22T07:32:41Z He was perpetually encumbered with the rubbish of law, and waded with laborious steps through its endless tautologies, its impertinent circuities, its lying assertions, and hateful artifices. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z I've always been baffled as to why smart people, like Stephen Hawking, take this tautology seriously. Winning Argument: As a 'New' Critique of Reason, Argumentative Theory Is Trite but Useful 2011-05-30T13:45:00.260Z Lenette answered her tautologies with equivalent ones, paying her back to the full in her own coin. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z As we walked home a young lad in our party, who was evidently studying rhetoric in school, was heard to inquire, “Mother, wouldn’t you call that an example of tautology?” The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Remembering that the Canon is an Irishman and a humorist—which is tautology—we may perhaps discount his statement a little bit for blarney and a little more for fun. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The laws themselves are very concise, and free from that tautology, which seems the characteristic of the enactments of nations farther advanced in refinement. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Thus understood, the thesis formulates no mere tautology. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z It's almost a tautology, when rates are very low, one of the consequences are that people reach for returns. Dallas Fed president: 'We're moving forward' 2011-02-21T21:35:00Z This is sometimes indulged at the risk of tautology. Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends 2011-02-04T03:00:18.247Z Not here and now can we set down the precise contents of Pierre's letter, without a tautology illy doing justice to the ideas themselves. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Cf. also Amasa Walker's contention that "exchangeable value" is tautology, equivalent to "exchangeable exchangeability!" The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Going off to find yourself isn't a new idea and in this age of sophisticated marketing techniques "spiritual journey" is almost a tautology. Eat, pray, cash in 2010-08-13T23:02:00Z As to the instance “Brutes are not men; therefore men are not brutes,” there seems to me no consequence here, neither a præter nor a propter, but a tautology. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent One might regard it as a study in tautology. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life Their preaching was very pathetic and flowery; they liked to warn people against cold subtleties, and recommended what they called a juicy, racy style, but which their opponents found fault with as affected tautology. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. As for tautology and miracle, the follower of Mill might well ask: how an association of particulars, whether mental states or things, could be more tautologous than a universal reproducing its own differences? Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude It is tautology, for two sentences further on it is all expressed in its proper place, in referring to the history of the king. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence Even in Churchill's few words there is the awkward and heavy tautology—tongue and voice. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 In a work of this nature, tautology is not altogether unavoidable, as that which occurs in one division of it, equally applies to another. The Use of a Box of Colours In a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour. I prefer tautology to a chance of misconception. Eureka: A Prose Poem If tautology, simple repetition in the predicate of what has been stated in the subject, if this constitutes an axiom, then we have a splendid specimen. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" The proposition that property, i. e., the right to the substance of the thing appropriated, cannot be created by labour, because the land cannot be appropriated, is at least a petitio principii or tautology. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory The words of this credo are either a mere tautology, and “deus” is misused as a new name for nature; or they are false. Naturalism And Religion The “De” henceforth became part of the name, having quite lost its earliest significance, and with unconscious tautology the barony is commonly referred to as that of De Clifford. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" The preposition “from” is included in these adverbs, therefore it becomes tautology in sense when prefixed to them. Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected Well, then, sir, allow me to tell you, in very positive terms, sir, that you have been guilty of—of tautology. Olla Podrida "Say a repentant tenant—no, that sounds like tautology—say a remorseful tenant brought it to you." Rossmoyne "Love a beautiful person nobly, but be sure you love her," says our social wisdom with interesting tautology. The Kempton-Wace Letters The whole of this objection is but another expression of tautology, that there can no longer be any wage-labor when there is no longer any capital. Manifesto of the Communist Party Poets and tautology go walking like the Walrus and the Carpenter. The So-called Human Race Deep with divine tautology, The sunset's mighty mystery Again has traced the scroll-like West With hieroglyphs of burning gold: Forever new, forever old, Its miracle is manifest. Weeds by the Wall Verses To say 'he fell—he died,' is therefore just tantamount to saying that he fell, he fell, or that he died, he died, and is bad poetry, and tautology. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Gross tautology: He had an entire monopoly of the whole fruit trade. The Century Handbook of Writing The rudest audience, as well as the most refined, soon grows weary, I suspect, of protracted, driftless, tautology. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed They plainly declare that the "New Criticis" rests on "utterly baseless foundations"—which is a curious pleonasm or tautology for a body of "educated" gentlemen. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Is it less tautology to describe a thing over and over again with lines, than it is with words? Modern Painters Volume I (of V) And, besides, only see how full it is of tautology. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Note.—A special form of wordiness is tautology—the useless repetition of an idea in different words. The Century Handbook of Writing There was a great deal of "I" and "me" and "you" in the letter, together with frequent repetitions; but tautology, under proper conditions, may have beauties of its own, not at all to be despised. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties Now "calm serenity" is bad tautology, and the general assertion of this passage is equally open to censure. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Pleonasm is the expression of an idea already plainly implied; tautology is the restatement in other words of an idea already stated, or a useless repetition of a word or words. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions There, too, sans apology, tea, tarts, tautology, Are given with zoölogy, to grave and gay; Thus fun and philosophy, supping and sophistry Send all to England home, happy and gay. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Now it strikes me that there is quite as much tautology in "unsane lunes" as in the double epithet, "dangerous, unsafe." Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Thackeray was a Titan—well, look at his slipshod style in places, his careless grammar, his constant tautology. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius He enjoins upon us to "define our terms" and "know the exact meanings of the terms we use"—which is absolute tautology. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) "I saw it with my eyes" is a pleonasm; "all the members agreed unanimously" is tautology. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Miss Anthony said: No matter if it were a mere tautology: it required repetition to make this nation, so steeped in crime against humanity, understand. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The text is not a mere tautology or repetition. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood But as the force in these cases was regarded as a property of the objects in which it is embodied, it seemed tautology to say that there must be the collocation and the force. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive The intensity of the appeal of Roland is no doubt helped by that approach to bareness—even by a certain tautology—which has been mentioned. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Pleonasm may add emphasis; tautology is always a fault. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions As it will become necessary to describe special modes of administration when speaking of the electro-balneological treatment of special diseases, the describing them now would only lead to tautologies that I am desirous of avoiding. The Electric Bath Is that heaping together of synonyms or all but synonyms, mere tautology? Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John There is nothing disgusts so much as repetitions of the same thing; and a composer of dances will avoid them as studiously as painters do in their pieces, or writers tautology. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Opening virtues blooming round, is something like tautology; the six following lines are poor and prosaick Art is, in another couplet, used for arts, that a rhyme may be had to heart. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Miss Farrar says I use tautology and repeat myself, and that my grammar is shaky and my general style poor. The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life But the talkative worry one's ears to death with their tautologies, as people scribble the same things over and over again on palimpsests.557 § vi. Plutarch's Morals And somebody says, 'Yes, that is tautology, that is saying the same thing twice over in different language.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The following extract exhibits examples of tautology and lengthiness. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Among the things to be avoided in writing is tautology, which is the repeating of the same thought, whether in the same or in different words. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. In stating that money and force, property and rule, money-making and power-acquiring are not the same, it is merely uttering a tautology. Selected Essays We have here an abortive attempt to correct the nonsensical reading of the old copies, unrolled; but if enrolled itself makes sense, it does so only by introducing tautology. Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. I answer, nowhere; and the tautology he speaks of was either a creation or a blunder of his own. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Tautology.—The fault of repeating the same word several times unnecessarily is called tautology, e.g.: How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition I know I shall be justly accused with tautology. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner The Author is conscious of the tautology of which he is guilty in again recommending the reader not to pass over unread the extracts in the Appendix from Occleve and Lydgate. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth These vices have been named tautology, dryness, and “fine writing.” The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric If he had laboured with no other defect, had he the gift of tautology? The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg In one respect this is also a tautology. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 In this view the phrase is mere tautology, for taxation and appropriation are or may be necessary incidents of the exercise of any of the enumerated legislative powers. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 It is only when we fall into such contradiction or tautology by lapse of thought, by not fully understanding our own words, that it becomes absurd. Logic Deductive and Inductive Secondly, because he is, I perceive, a lover of elegancy of style and can endure no man’s tautologies but his own; and therefore I would not distaste him with too frequent repetition of one word. Andrew Marvell In his manners, likewise, little Karlee was the very tautology of his namesake with the gray moustache,—the same wary self-possession, the same immovable gravity and nice decorum. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics The same matter, if couched in the modern statutory language, with all its tautologies, redundancies, and circumlocutions, would have spread itself over many pages, and been unintelligible to those whom it most concerns. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 When there is a tautology, we attain truth by definition. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy But in these cases the words 'metal' and 'body' are unmistakable tautology, since 'metal' is implied in gold and 'body' in sun. Logic Deductive and Inductive Barring tautology, In demonology, 'Lectro biology, Mystic nosology, Spirit philology, High class astrology, Such is his knowledge, he Isn't the man to require an apology! Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs A great deal of it is so absurd, trifling, and full of tautology that it requires no little patience to read much of it at a time. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 "Shall I not go along with monsieur, then?" repeated Charles, with a turn for tautology not now for the first time manifested. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 One may see the tautology: If you accept the model, then there is a free lunch; and you accept the model if you see innovation as a free lunch. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy Impotent menaces of revenge were repeated with emphasis, and as nobody in the convent dared to contradict her, she gratified her anger and love of prating with endless tautologies. Hieroglyphic Tales Nor, finally, can the teaching elder here be meant; for that were to make a needless and absurd tautology, the teacher being formerly mentioned in this same verse. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London These two precepts are not mere tautology, but the second of them is the ground of the first. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) But I found that in dealing with so many distinct subjects the same fact became sometimes an indispensable illustration of more than one topic; and hence repetition was unavoidable even at the risk of tautology. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 When there is a tautology, we attain truth by definition. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy The highest message of Mahomet is a piece of divine tautology. The New Jerusalem There is scarcely any harm in curtailing the frequent tautology of this chapter. Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I The battles of the ocean have the same sublime tautology as the combats of Homer. The Man Who Laughs You tell us your wine is bad, and that the clergy do not frequent your house, which we look upon to be tautology. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) When there is a tautology, we attain truth by definition. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy Geographical Text of Polo's Book constantly quoted, its language; proofs that it is the original; tautology; source of other texts. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 In aiming to secure sentence emphasis, then, we should avoid circumlocution, redundancy, tautology, and verbosity. Composition-Rhetoric The copiousness of her vocabulary of abuse surprised herself, and she did not shrink from tautology. Bred in the Bone Let others think of logic, rhetoric, and I know not what impertinence, but mind thou tautology. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Empirical truth then is conditioned to the logical tautology of the definition that we have chosen. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy The repetition of the word degree, in saying, "The superlative degree increases or lessens the positive to the highest or lowest degree," is a disagreeable tautology. The Grammar of English Grammars The name is actually "Reedy Pool," so that "lake" is a tautology reminding one of a similar blunder, often made by folks who should know better, in speaking of "Lake" Windermere. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter There is certainly a great deal of verbiage and tautology about them. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Barring tautology, In demonology, 'Lectro biology, Mystic nosology, Spirit philology, High class astrology, Such is his knowledge, he Isn't the man to require an apology Oh! Songs of a Savoyard This is almost exactly what we shall do, except that we generate tautologies. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy In one of his parsing lessons, Sanborn gives us for good English the following tautology: "Rhode Island derived its name from the island of Rhode Island." The Grammar of English Grammars My respected father—let me shorten the dutiful tautology by substituting in future M. R. F., which sounds military, and rather like the Duke of Wellington.' Our Mutual Friend Barring tautology, In demonology, 'Lectro-biology, Mystic nosology, Spirit philology, High-class astrology, Such is his knowledge, he Isn't the man to require an apology! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan The whole of this objection is but another expression of the tautology: that there can no longer be any wage-labour when there is no longer any capital. The Communist Manifesto I of course objected to this, and enquired what reason he had for having recourse to so much tautology. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society These drawbacks, however, do not wholly destroy the force of the foregoing criticism, or at all extenuate the obvious tautology and impropriety of such phrases as, is being, was being, &c. The Grammar of English Grammars Our disease is not, then, absolutely incurable, and the theory of the theologians is worse than inadequate; it is ridiculous, since it is reducible to this tautology: "Man errs, because he errs." What is Property? To further account for the state of existing hiatus in Mr. Penny's scheme of things would be tautology. Star-Dust This truth is a tautology, for to reason well is in fact to express oneself well, because the expression is the intuitive possession of one's own logical thought. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic There are also various other reasons why repetition and apparent tautology are frequently beauties of the highest kind. Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1 And if you will have the whole explanation to be, "Send him such books as the books are books which will please him;" you multiply words, and finally arrive at nothing, but tautology and nonsense. The Grammar of English Grammars That is true, but it is a tautology. What is Property? Here is unquestionably a tautology, since to shield and to shelter convey precisely the same idea. The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes The formula, then, of apparent feelings is nothing but a tautology. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic There are few erasures or mistakes of grammar or spelling, even from the first, and little tautology; but she makes no attempt at literary style or elegance of expression. The Heavenly Twins The length of their dramatic verse forces the French into much tautology, into bombast in its original meaning, the stuffing out a thought with words till it fills the line. Among My Books First Series But they are by no means tautology or useless and aimless repetition. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark It is not by accident, nor is it a mere piece of tautology, that we read 'the Lord his God.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII They are quantitative concepts, but falsely quantitative, since there is no way of measuring them; they are, at bottom, metaphors, emphatic phrases, or logical tautologies. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic In the Christian experience 'willingly offered' is almost tautology, for unwilling offerings are a contradiction and in fact there are no such things. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Deep with divine tautology, The sunset's mighty mystery Again has traced the scroll-like west With hieroglyphs of burning gold: Forever new, forever old, Its miracle is manifest. Poems She gave the smallest sign of a bow, and Lush went on, with a little awkwardness, getting entangled in what is elegantly called tautology. Daniel Deronda Now if you will look at that phrase "The Best Modern Criticism" you will see at once that it simply teems with assumption and tautology. First and Last The doleful ticket-seller was annoyed at the tautology of passing him a nickel and saying, "One!" We Can't Have Everything Such repetitions are not tautologies, for each utters some new aspect of the one subject, and comes from a new gush of heart's love towards it. Expositions of Holy Scripture Their ideal 'cause' was the totality of reality, identified with its 'effect,' in a meaningless tautology. Pragmatism As a specimen of tautology and hammering reiteration the following can scarcely be surpassed. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 No tautology is to be found and no attempt at ornate expression. The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution And unless tautology, anachronisms, and contradictions are a proof of inspiration, much less could it have been written by a single inspired writer. Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People That would be an intolerable tautology, for we should then have the same thing said three times over—'an old man,' 'in a good old age,' 'full of years.' Expositions of Holy Scripture And Insie was especially a female girl—which has now ceased to be tautology—so feminine were her walk, and way, and sudden variety of unreasonable charm. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale But to adopt that Text, with all its awkwardnesses and tautologies, as the absolute subject of translation, would have been a mistake. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 Indeed, one overruns the line of tautology in distinguishing between wealth and power. Great Fortunes from Railroads And, if we chose to make "good" but a synonym for pleasure, we remain in the same tautology when we affirm that every pleasure is a good. A Handbook of Ethical Theory Precision requires concise and exact expression, free from redundancy and tautology, a style terse and clear and simple enough to enable the hearer or reader to comprehend immediately the meaning of the speaker or writer. How to Speak and Write Correctly His object was, under the fiction of an independent multitude, to smuggle in a virtual unity; for his court physicians are no plural body in effect and virtue, but a mere pleonasm and a tautology. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 We are uttering a mere tautology if we mean by 'in the mind' the same as by 'before the mind', i.e. if we mean merely being apprehended by the mind. The Problems of Philosophy "I have lived and have loved," saith Schiller; and if it were not that there seems some tautology in the phrase, I should say, such is my own motto. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 6 Though this is extremely awkward, I am sure I will not write my letter over again; so pray excuse or burn my tautology. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Go critically over what you write and strike out every word, phrase and clause the omission of which impairs neither the clearness nor force of the sentence and so avoid redundancy, tautology and circumlocution. How to Speak and Write Correctly Upon this passage the "terrible man" made a brief annotation:" this paragraph does admirably," he said, adding, with characteristic tautology, "and what you say in it is also excellent." The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 25: 1577, part II If we say that the things known must be in the mind, we are either unduly limiting the mind's power of knowing, or we are uttering a mere tautology. The Problems of Philosophy The Balkan is the eternal hunting grounds of oxymorons, tautologies and logical fallacies. After the Rain : how the West lost the East Adieu! my dearest friends it would be tautology to subscribe a name to a letter, every line of which would suit no other man in the world but the writer. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 All his guests felt in their secret souls and pockets—excuse the tautology—that some day or other they should want to borrow money of him. Love Me Little, Love Me Long Other people of my way of thinking would no doubt think the same—which is a pretty piece of tautology. The Emancipated Possibility, existence, and necessity nobody has ever yet been able to explain without being guilty of manifest tautology, when the definition has been drawn entirely from the pure understanding. The Critique of Pure Reason "I understand you; they amputate to prevent tautology." The Monikins It is therefore a truism, almost a tautology, to say that all magic is necessarily false and barren; for were it ever to become true and fruitful, it would no longer be magic but science. The Golden Bough I have been careful to preserve the balanced sentences with which the tales open; the tautology and the prose- rhyme serving to attract attention, e. g., The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 I worship you!” poured forth young Grindley, forgetful of all Miss Appleyard had ever told him concerning the folly of tautology. Tommy and Co. If this is admitted, you will have apparently gained the day, but in reality have enounced nothing but a mere tautology. The Critique of Pure Reason Heaven forbid that I should once more wade in those swamps of logomachy and tautology in which the old guard of the Determinists still seem to be floundering. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays Never did music sound sweeter to an amateur, than the drowsy tautology, with which old Janet detailed every circumstance, thrilled upon the ears of Waverley. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since The fear of tautology has doubtless led to the multiplications of words and the meanings of words, and generally to an enlargement of the vocabulary. Cratylus The difficulty of preserving the effect of the Greek is increased by the want of adversative and inferential particles in English, and by the nice sense of tautology which characterizes all modern languages. Charmides "Mr. Ladd is always making fun, and the Board couldn't expect any great things of us girls, new beginners," suggested Emma Jane, who was being constantly warned against tautology by her teacher. New Chronicles of Rebecca He is a replica and a shadow, a foolish libel on his Creator, who, from the beginning of time, was never guilty of tautology. Style No philosophical writer with the exception of Plato, who is himself not free from tautology, and perhaps Bacon, has attained to any high degree of literary excellence. Cratylus It is a very early instinct of language; for ancient poetry is almost as free from tautology as the best modern writings. Cratylus As in the previous case, while the feeling of the modern language is more opposed to tautology, there is also a greater difficulty in avoiding it. Charmides Another quality in which modern are superior to ancient languages is freedom from tautology. Cratylus And the evasion of tautology—that is, the substitution of one word of precisely the same meaning for another—is resented by us equally with the repetition of words. Charmides But the Greek has no such precise rules; and hence any literal translation of a Greek author is full of tautology. Charmides When they grow up and have ideas which are beyond their powers of expression, especially in writing, tautology begins to appear. Cratylus |
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