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- noun Plural form of
tautonym .
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It appears from Simplicius 'Commentary on Aristotle's Categories (Kalbfleisch 1907 38. 19-24) that Speusippus applied his method of division, however it worked, to language: there we hear of a division of terms even more elaborate than Aristotle's in the opening chapter of the Categories: there we hear of homonyms, synonyms, and paronyms, but Speusippus differentiated between tautonyms (uses of the same term), within which there are homonyms
Speusippus Dancy, Russell 2003
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