English-Italian translations for tautology

• tautologia
  Tuttavia, una siffatta affermazione è di per sé poco più che una tautologia. But a statement like that is in itself little more than tautology.
  Fluttuiamo di continuo in un' enorme tautologia e temo sia proprio questa la base della politica economica da lei caldeggiata. We keep getting caught in a huge tautology and I am afraid that this is precisely the economic policy which you support.
  Credo di non essermi mai imbattuto in un esercizio così fine di tautologia in un documento pubblico. I do not think I have ever come across such a fine exercise in tautology in a public document.

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