English-German translations for tautology

• Tautologie die
  Ich glaube nicht, dass ich in einem amtlichen Dokument jemals ein so schönes Beispiel von Tautologie gefunden habe. I do not think I have ever come across such a fine exercise in tautology in a public document.
• Pleonasmus der

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