tautological

• “Oh, and 'tautology' or 'tautological' is used in two other places in that piece.”

  Archive 2007-05-01

• “Conventional women -- but was not the phrase tautological?”

  Born in Exile

• “I think you should be able to recognize that so far, you have only made what I would call a tautological argument.”

  Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll

• “She believes that it is "tautological" to say that "Beethoven's compositional practice was 'more powerful and more effective than that of any of his contemporaries."”

  Beethoven's Genius: An Exchange

• “… maybe, but most of “Key to the Scriptures” is the same kind of tautological gibberish.”

  My offer to discuss ID with Dembski - The Panda's Thumb

• “short views for goodness sake said....."tautological" ,my how can it get any better than this.”

  Comment Registration: The Experiment Ends Early

• “Not sure what your point is, as you can make terrible tautological arguments with regard to any system.”

  Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Case for Parliamentarism

• “Taggart also collects examples into wider themes such as how names evolve "through mumbling and confusion", the Norwegian influence on the northwest, tautological placenames "Bredon" means "hill hill", and placenames we might snigger at, though they have "perfectly sensible derivations": Badgers Mount, Great Snoring, Nasty, and Ogle.”

  The Guardian: Et cetera: non-fiction roundup

• “This, however, is both tautological and of little strategic value.”

  The Huffington Post: Lincoln Mitchell: What Is the Democratic Party Base?

• “Your (2) substitutes rhetoric for precision and so I can't tell whether it is right or wrong, but it is virtually tautological as offered.”

  "Can the killing of abortionists be justified?"

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