English-French translations for tautology

• tautologie
  Nous pataugeons continuellement dans une énorme tautologie, et je crains fort que ce ne soit précisément la politique économique que vous défendez. We keep getting caught in a huge tautology and I am afraid that this is precisely the economic policy which you support.
• lapalissade
• pléonasme
  Mais une telle affirmation n'est en soi guère plus qu'un pléonasme. But a statement like that is in itself little more than tautology.
• truisme

Definition of tautology

• Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition
• An expression that features tautology
• ''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

Examples

• It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".
• The expression "raze to the ground" is a tautology, since the word "raze" includes the notion "to the ground".

Related words

• tautological
• tautologic
• tautologically
• tautologist