He complained of the insufferable prolixity and the vast tautology of Euclid and the other ancient geometricians; and when the discoveries or modern analysts were presented, he was immediately distracted, and fell into endless musings.
Tautology and contradiction are the limiting cases--indeed the disintegration--of the combination of signs.
Application of this to tautology and contradiction.
If propositions are to yield a tautology when they are connected in a certain way, they must have certain structural properties.
It is clear that the logical product of two elementary propositions can neither be a tautology nor a contradiction.
Tautology is the common factor of all propositions that have nothing in common with one another.
In a tautology the conditions of agreement with the world--the representational relations--cancel one another, so that it does not stand in any representational relation to reality.
Contradiction is the outer limit of propositions: tautology is the unsubstantial point at their centre.
The fact that a tautology is yielded by this particular way of connecting its constituents characterizes the logic of its constituents.
Pp)' yield a tautology shows that they contradict one another.
Contradiction, one might say, vanishes outside all propositions: tautology vanishes inside them.
A tautology follows from all propositions: it says nothing.
A tautology leaves open to reality the whole--the infinite whole--of logical space: a contradiction fills the whole of logical space leaving no point of it for reality.
The logical product of a tautology and a proposition says the same thing as the proposition.
A tautologyhas no truth-conditions, since it is unconditionally true: and a contradiction is true on no condition.
It is a very early instinct of language; for ancient poetry is almost as free from tautology as the best modern writings.
When they grow up and have ideas which are beyond their powers of expression, especially in writing, tautologybegins to appear.
The fear of tautology has doubtless led to the multiplications of words and the meanings of words, and generally to an enlargement of the vocabulary.
I answer, nowhere; and the tautology he speaks of was either a creation or a blunder of his own.
In Rapin there will generally be remarked a certain redundancy, which fastidious critics might calltautology of expression.
Ricardo’s theory of money was exceedingly convenient, because it lends a tautology the semblance of a statement of causal connection.
Similarly, it is a tautology to say that matter in its natural state has no exchange value, because it does not contain any labor, and that exchange value as such does not contain matter.
If it is more than a tautology then it is based on a misconception of the most elementary principles.
The tautology once admitted as a statement of cause, the rest follows easily.
In that sense it is a tautology to say that property (appropriation) is a condition of production.
That again comes down to the tautology that the facility of creating wealth depends on the extent to which its elements are present both subjectively and objectively.
Not here and now can we set down the precise contents of Pierre's letter, without a tautology illy doing justice to the ideas themselves.
The bad tautology from which speakers have been so frayed seems to be the giving twice or many times, within one scope of thought-wording, the same matter of speech in the same words.
And, to avoid the tautology of saying that progress is increase of life, we must judge of it simply by empirical observation of the nature of human activity and of the course of human affairs.
His idea of humanity as a realm of ends was limited by his formal conception of the function of reason, though it suggests the way by which the mere tautology of will may be transcended.
My respected father--let me shorten the dutiful tautology by substituting in future M.
It endeavors to dissipate that excessive and vulgar dread of tautology which, together with a fondness for misplaced pleasantry, gives rise to the vicious style described above.
The following extract exhibits examples of tautology and lengthiness.
He contemplates his nature as external to himself, and this nature as goodness; thus it is self-evident, it is mere tautology to say that the impulse to good comes only from thence where he places the good.
There is a numerous class of readers who imagine that the same words cannot be repeated without tautology: this is a great error: virtual tautology is much oftener produced by using different words when the meaning is exactly the same.
There are also various other reasons why repetition and apparenttautology are frequently beauties of the highest kind.
Tautology is when we either uselessly repeat the same words, or repeat the same sense in different words.
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day] I suppose every reader is disgusted at the tautology in this passage, Time and the hour, and will therefore willingly believe that Shakespeare wrote it thus, Come what come may, Time!
Not only the tautology of bards and poets, but the want of a correspondent action for the poet, whose business in the next line is only to number, makes me suspect some fault in this passage, which I know not how to mend.
There is a numerous class of readers who imagine that the same words cannot be repeated without tautology; this is a great error: virtual tautology is much oftener produced by using different words when the meaning is exactly the same.
