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tautology noun battology, duplication, loquacity, pleonasm, profuseness, redundancy, repetition, surfeit, verbiage, verbosity See also: redundancy How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| His is a philosophical humor that relies on tautologies and clashing contrasts, inspired equally by Duchamp and Wittgenstein. To make matters worse, in his attempt to work out his conception of 'worldview' from the Kantian synthetic a priori, Acikgenc falls into tautologies, circularities, conceptual gaps, inconsistencies and contradictions too numerous and tedious to exhaust in any detail here. The continued use of categories such as eschatology or apocalyptic to describe New Testament data simply indicates that too many scholars are stuck in nineteenth-century tautologies that no longer produce the scientific self-evidence they did in the past. |
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