tautologic

adj : repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact'

and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the

phrase `a beginner who has just started' is

tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return

to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant [syn: {pleonastic},

{redundant}, {tautological}]

tautology

A {proposition} which is always true.

Compare: {paradox}.

{The Linguistic Smarandache Tautologies,

(http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/tautolog.txt)}.

(1999-07-28)