Here was the tautologous circuitry of the art market in miniature. From Wordnik.com. [Lawrence, a letter and me] Reference
The suggestion was that even apparently tautologous sentences, like. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Form] Reference
Now logic, he held, is tautologous and without ontological commitment. From Wordnik.com. [Atheism and Agnosticism] Reference
Bravo to Nathan Rice for trying to avoid circular and tautologous arguments. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Darwin Day: Thank God For Evolution!] Reference
Burchfield refers to “Where are you at?” as a tautologous regional usage. From Wordnik.com. [Where are you (at)? « Motivated Grammar] Reference
I have never heard anything so fatuous and vacuously circular and tautologous in my life. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Bizos said it was not unusual for legislators to be tautologous when drafting legislation. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"You would save this House considerable time if you spoke a less tautologous kind of Latin.". From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
To me 'shooting' war was like saying a death murder-rather tautologous, verbose and redundant. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of Thumbsucking] Reference
In part, it is tautologous: At the battle of Borodino Napoleon shot at no one and killed no one. From Wordnik.com. [Tolstoy and the Great Man Theory, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Maestro and Russ Petti noted the existence of a reasonable, non-tautologous, fifth reading of the line. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Update: Do Your Best at What You Do the Best] Reference
If the appeal to treating humans as humans is not to be purely assertive or tautologous, we need more (68-9). From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop - Religious Faith and Human Rights] Reference
There was an overlap of meaning between the ability sense of can and that of be able to, which made can be able to seem tautologous. From Wordnik.com. [On "can be able to"] Reference
At the time that he wrote his article Findlay was following the logical positivist line that logic and mathematics are alike tautologous. From Wordnik.com. [Atheism and Agnosticism] Reference
Some are tautologous, like "Do not explain too much.". From Wordnik.com. [Cafe con Leche XML News and Resources] Reference
By virtue of its tautologous nature it is not disprovable. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
The loose and tautologous style of this Preface is worth noting. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Of Selection] Reference
You are correct that the NIPA identities are tautologous and true by. From Wordnik.com. [tdaxp] Reference
For a name, not to be tautologous, should be proposed a Græco-Anglicism. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
To say that, if it increases, his wages increase is to be simply tautologous. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
I see what you did there -- you used "Dept." twice to further prove the tautologous phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Above the Law] Reference
Or if the first expression be preferred, the second may be omitted, as perfectly tautologous. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference
You are correct that the NIPA identities are tautologous and true by definition .... tdaxp, Sorry I missed your follow up. From Wordnik.com. [tdaxp] Reference
That is to say, we are really saying that God's use of scripture is without error (almost tautologous) rather than the text itself. From Wordnik.com. [finitum non capax infiniti] Reference
Because they evoke that same illusion of substantiality that fools us into thinking it tautologous to ask, why do we like pleasure?. From Wordnik.com. [Atanu Dey on India's Development] Reference
The answer was as provokingly tautologous as a member of parliament's speech, who is in aid of the whipper-in, speaking against time. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
"a functioning cog in some great machine"… a tad tautologous. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I hate to be pedantic but the use of the two words … ’and also’ is tautologous. From Wordnik.com. [Cross & Rude « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
This is the issue of tautology: a model needs to specify what it’s trying to model or it becomes tautologous. From Wordnik.com. [Computational Social Science and the Problem With Hakkar’s Blood] Reference
All tautologous wffs of the language. From Wordnik.com. [Deontic Logic] Reference
That's so self-evident it's almost tautologous. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Isn't the use of 'losers' tautologous?. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
(sorry, that was tautologous) what's gone wrong. From Wordnik.com. [No Oil for Pacifists] Reference
2: a tautologous statement taxonomy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-10-01] Reference
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