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tautology
(redirected from Tautologous)

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tautology noun battology, duplication, loquacity, pleonasm, profuseness, redundancy, repetition, surfeit, verbiage, verbosity
See also: redundancy


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More seriously, any empirical study based on such an argument will likely be tautologous, deriving the norms only from the study of normative behavior and then using these derived norms from the very same behavior.
Specifically, "woman" is defined by what male desire requires for arousal and satisfaction and is socially tautologous with "female sexuality" and "the female sex.
 
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