"Tautology" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "mere machine," whose beautiful calligraphy (if that isn't a tautology) leaves no doubt in my mind that whether the writing of your letters by that agency is good for you or not it ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley
... tautology and hammering reiteration the following can scarcely be surpassed. The Traveller is speaking of the ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... that "Greenwich Village" is tautology? That region known affectionately as "Our Village" is Greenwich, pure and simple, and here is the "why" ...
— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin
... look at that phrase "The Best Modern Criticism" you will see at once that it simply teems with assumption and tautology. But it does more and worse: it presupposes that an infallible authority must of its own nature ...
— First and Last • H. Belloc
... bottom. What are the conditions of this event? In the first place there must be a stone, and water, and the stone must be thrown into the water; but these suppositions forming part of the enunciation of the phenomenon itself, to include them also among the conditions would be a vicious tautology; and this class of conditions, therefore, have never received the name of cause from any but the Aristotelians, by whom they were called the material cause, causa materialis. The next condition is, there must be an earth: and accordingly it is often said, that the fall ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
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