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Tautological
Tautological meaning
Of, relating to, or using tautology. | Using repetition or excessive wordiness; pleonastic or circumlocutionary.
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I am getting a bit tautological, time to go.
He argued that in Berkeley's case the fallacy is not obvious and this is because one premise is ambiguous between one meaning which is tautological and another which, Stove argues, is logically equivalent to the conclusion.
He then cites both Sartor Resartus and Samuel Butler 's The Fair Haven, remarking, however, that "those works suffer under the imperfection that they themselves are books, and not a whit less tautological than the others.
The alternative approach, mentioned above, of constructing the real numbers as the completion of the rational numbers, makes the completeness of the real numbers tautological.
The fact that the observed universe has a small cosmological constant is just a tautological consequence of the fact that a small value is required for life to exist.