Wondering how to use Tautological in a sentence? Below are 5 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as redundant or prolix.
Tautological in a sentence
Tautological meaning
- Of, relating to, or using tautology.
- Using repetition or excessive wordiness; pleonastic or circumlocutionary.
Using Tautological
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, relating to, or using tautology. | Using repetition or excessive wordiness; pleonastic or circumlocutionary.
- Useful related words include: pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, prolix.
Context around Tautological
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tautological
- In this selection, "tautological" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bit, less, numbers and consequence stand out and add context to how "tautological" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bit tautological time to and just a tautological consequence of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tautological" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tautological
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I am getting a bit tautological, time to go. (9 words)
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. (25 words)
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. (29 words)
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. (37 words)
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. (36 words)
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. (29 words)
Example sentences (5)
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.