Conventional women -- but was not the phrase tautological?. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
Oh, and 'tautology' or 'tautological' is used in two other places in that piece. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
I think you should be able to recognize that so far, you have only made what I would call a tautological argument. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll] Reference
Short views for goodness sake said....."tautological" ,my how can it get any better than this. From Wordnik.com. [Comment Registration: The Experiment Ends Early] Reference
It's so obvious, so indisputable, even tautological. From Wordnik.com. [Reverse Henry-Fordism] Reference
In fact, the dull truth is that pain is tautological. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-10] Reference
To the rest of the world it sounds empty and tautological. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Rosen: The Net Knows More Than You: An Open Letter to the People of CBS News] Reference
Selfe said the aborted legislation had been tautological or. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Sure the patronizing and tautological ones are still there. From Wordnik.com. [Depressed? Hopeless? Stop Looking at the Help Wanted Ads] Reference
Are you asserting that self-reference must be tautological?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Mojave Cross Removed] Reference
This, however, is both tautological and of little strategic value. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln Mitchell: What Is the Democratic Party Base?] Reference
It is tautological unless the NYT considers itself to be illegitimate. From Wordnik.com. [Dept. Of Good Questions] Reference
My own favourite is that tautological inexactitude often heard on Silverlink. From Wordnik.com. [The Perils of Modern Day Train Travel] Reference
This is a lovely little tautological tool that acts as a silencer of criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Miller: Timothy's Law - A Worrying Addition to a Trend] Reference
C4 – 6 are a reduplication, not unnatural indeed, but pro tanto tautological. From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
To suggest that New Yorkers also hate Red Sox fans is therefore a bit tautological. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Yankee Dawdle! Gone Baby Gone Succeeds Despite Affleck's Red Sox Fandom] Reference
OB~~p, but the latter formula is not tautological, so we cannot complete the proof. From Wordnik.com. [Deontic Logic] Reference
"Liquid power" is even worse and more unlike; and most tautological the "virtue of power.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
Instead of taste, we might use the expression aesthetic sense, if this were not tautological. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Literature] Reference
For example, it is tautological to say that, given p, and given if p, then q, q must be true. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy] Reference
The tautological nature of that statement points to how difficult it will be to achieve that. From Wordnik.com. [2010 April « One Size Fits One] Reference
Anecdotal, egotistical, and wholly tautological, it is a dazzling example of unbridled fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [State of fear]
It won't matter, as Neo Cons rely on a tautological loophole that justifies pretty much anything. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Cohen: 10 Ways To Spot a Neo Con] Reference
The idea of the genius-madman is a tiresome one: sentimental, tautological, demeaning to artists. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference
The rather tautological use of the two similar words 'rack' and 'ruin' is for the sake of emphasis. From Wordnik.com. [pojken Diary Entry] Reference
Yet, resorting to memory to define identity may appear to be a circular (even tautological) argument. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema] Reference
Scriptural language is emphatic and not superfluous or tautological, these overturnings mean something. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
The readers who called this item to our attention thought that 50-50 split was obvious, even tautological. From Wordnik.com. ['Did I Mention He's Black?'] Reference
And without the tautological crutch that any story critical of the administration is proof of liberal bias. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Daou: A Challenge to Rightwing Bloggers Who Blame the Media for the Cheney Mess] Reference
The repetition of the "you" is emphatic, not tautological, and is demanded by the whole meaning of the passage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
This may sound tautological, but isn't, as the millions of opinions with which we are all bombarded daily demonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [The matter of opinion] Reference
But the rest, “New archbishop wins over New York,” is probably a bit of a tautological proposition given the image. From Wordnik.com. [Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?] Reference
To me, Rumsfeld's valediction (in which he did lob a few last tautological epigrams) is only cause for more celebration. From Wordnik.com. [Joshuah Bearman: Cut and Rumsfeld] Reference
It was ended finally by Wittgenstein, who convinced him that math - ematics was after all, as Hume had argued, entirely tautological. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Every race has a right to survive if it can prove its right by surviving; however, like most evolutionary thinking, this is tautological. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
This might sound tautological to CoffeeHousers, but it is genuinely bold of Obsorne to be defending the free market in the current climate. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
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