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tautological

[tawt-l-oj-i-kuhl] / ˌtɔt lˈɒdʒ ɪ kəl /
ADJECTIVE
repetitious
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News of the Tautological “Real-estate research firm Trulia recently found that homes in the highest-priced cities have appreciated far more than homes in lower-priced cities during the last 30 years.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 2, 2016

Tautological definitions cause more to be supposed than is true—the too terse explanation leaves some necessary thing unmentioned.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob




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