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tautologies

noun

Meaning

  1. Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
  2. An expression that features tautology.
  3. In propositional logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables. In first-order logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.

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