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All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.
Herbert Simon

Meaning of "tautologies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TAUTOLOGIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAUTOLOGIES

noun
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preposition
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determiner
exclamation
Tautologies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TAUTOLOGIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tautology

Tautology may refer to: ▪ Tautology, a self-reinforcing pretense of significant truth ▪ Tautology, the use of redundant words ▪ Tautology, a universal truth in formal logic ▪ Tautology, a rule of replacement for logical expressions ▪ Tautonym, a species name where both parts are identical...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAUTOLOGIES

tautochrone
tautochronism
tautochronous
tautog
tautologic
tautological
tautologically
tautologise
tautologism
tautologist
tautologize
tautologous
tautologously
tautology
tautomer
tautomeric
tautomerism
tautometric
tautometrical
tautonym

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAUTOLOGIES

analogies
anthologies
apologies
bogies
chronologies
etiologies
fogies
genealogies
homologies
ideologies
methodologies
mythologies
ologies
pathologies
psychologies
stogies
strategies
technologies
terminologies
theologies
trilogies

Synonyms and antonyms of tautologies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TAUTOLOGIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tautologies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tautologies

Translation of «tautologies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAUTOLOGIES

Find out the translation of tautologies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tautologies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tautologies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

重言式
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tautologías
570 millions of speakers

English

tautologies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tautologies
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإطناب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тавтологии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tautologias
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tautologies
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tautologies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tautologi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tautologien
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トートロジー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tautologies
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tautologi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tautologies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tautologies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Tautologies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

totolojilerdir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tautologie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tautologie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тавтології
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tautologii
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ταυτολογίες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toutologieë
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

tautologier
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tautologies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tautologies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTOLOGIES»

The term «tautologies» is normally little used and occupies the 121.003 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTOLOGIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tautologies

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2 QUOTES WITH «TAUTOLOGIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tautologies.
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Herbert Simon
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAUTOLOGIES»

Discover the use of tautologies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tautologies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cross-cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction
(c) I think: one should not think this (d) I don't want to think now about other people As this formula indicates, the Japanese tautologies of irrelevance are closely related to the English tautologies of 'irreducible difference'. In fact, sentences such ...
Anna Wierzbicka, 2003
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Logic With Added Reasoning
We can use our truth tables to analyze some abstract sentences (sentences written in propositional logic without any meaning specified for the sentences involved, i.e. sentences without a key) and see if they are tautologies. Definition 4.1.1 A ...
Michael Gabbay, 2002
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Essays on Self-reference
Until now I have dealt with tautologies and paradoxes as logically equivalent yet reversed schemas of observations and descriptions. However, this assumption turns out to be problematic if one regards tautologies as special cases of ...
Niklas Luhmann, 1990
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The Nature of All Being : A Study of Wittgenstein's Modal ...
"All propositions of logic," he writes, "are generalizations of tautologies and all generalizations of tautologies are propositions of logic. There are no logical propositions but these." (NB 127). To be sure, he goes on to say "I can't myself say quite ...
Raymond Bradley Professor of Philosophy Simon Fraser University, 1992
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How To Improve Your Mind: 20 Keys to Unlock the Modern World
The concept of a tautology clarifies the roles of logic and evidence. Preview: Tautologies; tautologies pretending to be something else; ​falsification; tautologies used to include or exclude; is evolution a tautology? The best way to introduce the ...
James R. Flynn, 2012
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Computer Science Logic: 21 International Workshop, CSL 2007, ...
We define the following subsets of Fk: – Clk is the set of all classical tautologies i.e. formulas which are true under any valuation. – Intk is the set of all intuitionistic tautologies i.e. formulas for which there are closed lambda terms (constructive ...
Jacques Duparc, Thomas A. Henzinger, 2007
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The Existential Graphs of Charles S. Peirce
Rl preserves tautologies. Proof: We proceed by mathematical induction on n, where 2n is the number of cuts within which the erasure takes place (n = 0, 1 , 2, . . . ). Case 1 . Erasure is applied to a graph which is evenly enclosed within zero ...
Don D. Roberts, 1973
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The Logical Status of Diagrams
6.2.3 Tautologies and contradictions Tautologies and contradictions are not the most interesting cases in a representation system. Nonetheless, we expect a reasonable representation system to represent tautological and contradictory ...
Sun-Joo Shin, 1994
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STACS 2000: 17th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of ...
Nondeterministic. Instance. Complexity. and. Hard-to-Prove. Tautologies. Vikraman Arvind1, Johannes K ̈obler2, Martin Mundhenk3,andJacoboTor ́an4 1 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, C.I.T Campus, Madras 600113, India 2 ...
Horst Reichel, Sophie Tison, 2000
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Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
5.8 TAUTOLOGIES AND CONTRADICTIONS Two kinds of propositions that are of particular concern to logicians and semanticists are tautologies (in a technical sense of 'tautology') and contradictions. The former, as traditionally defined, are ...
John Lyons, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAUTOLOGIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tautologies is used in the context of the following news items.
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Evan Pike-USA TODAY Sports
My latest work, "Logic of Single form Tautologies, and Other Things I Think I Know to be True" was proceeding nicely through the Chapter "Single Form ... «From The Rumble Seat, Jul 15»
2
Oeuvre Here: An 18 Album Voyage Through Ringo Starr's …
Ringo's gift for malapropisms and tautologies was well known in the Beatles heydey, and he returns with two corkers here. The album title makes you think long ... «Drowned In Sound, Jul 15»
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Pléonasmes et tautologies
Avez-vous remarqué la tendance, un peu fâcheuse à nos yeux, que nous avons à bégayer ? Le bégaiement dont il est question ici n'est pas le défaut ... «L'Humanité, Jun 15»
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The Dialogue Is the Dialogue in This Supercut of The Wire Tautologies
Is The Wire's tendency to use tautologies part of its fatalistic view that—unless you change the system—nothing really changes? (The game is the game, and the ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
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Column 8: Typewriters and testing tautologies
It is most unlikely that the following situation would ever arise, but for some reason Linda Wassink, of Beecroft, wants to know how it would pan out if it did. «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
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What The Contrarians Are Thinking Now
Contrarians also have ideas. The fact they can be dead wrong is beside the point. The herd follows and justifies its actions with tautologies like “the trend is your ... «Forbes, Apr 15»
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Tautological Description-Relativistic Metaphysics IS The Theory Of …
The early Wittgenstein held logic to be empty because nothing but tautologies such as “A = A”, “P => P”, or “P or not-P” can be ultimately proven to be true. «Science 2.0, Feb 15»
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Among the Mind Deniers: A Darwinist Mathematician Reflects on …
Shallit, a Darwinist, has a weakness for tautologies. Most philosophers (unless they have some decent neuroscience training*) have simply nothing of interest to ... «Discovery Institute, Oct 14»
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Censored! The journalism they didn't want you to see
News stories often throw up knee-jerk tautologies: can you find the ones in the ... Finally – and this is where a small amount of skill comes in – there's tautology. «The Guardian, Oct 14»
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That debt equals assets is totally irrelevant
I cannot argue with the tautology. However, as with most tautologies, it contains no information. It ignores the underlying problem, which is one of distribution. «Financial Times, Mar 14»

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