Originally posted by tautology
Some would say I am "a heartbeat away" from higher office.
Hillary?
Some would say I am "a heartbeat away" from higher office.
Hillary?
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Originally posted by Gturtle
omg Tautology is Vice President Joe Biden
Your head's in the right place, but you are off the target.
omg Tautology is Vice President Joe Biden
Your head's in the right place, but you are off the target.
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Originally posted by Firenze
Originally posted by tautology
Some would say I am "a heartbeat away" from higher office.
Kevin Bacon?
No, but you're in the right food group.
Originally posted by tautology
Some would say I am "a heartbeat away" from higher office.
Kevin Bacon?
No, but you're in the right food group.
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Originally posted by Bisaster
Originally posted by tautology
Some would say I am "a heartbeat away" from higher office.
The Pope?
No, but I do have the power of life and death
Originally posted by tautology
Some would say I am "a heartbeat away" from higher office.
The Pope?
No, but I do have the power of life and death
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Originally posted by Iceman16
Originally posted by tautology
Some would say I am "a heartbeat away" from higher office.
Hillary?
Getting colder...
Originally posted by tautology
Some would say I am "a heartbeat away" from higher office.
Hillary?
Getting colder...
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Originally posted by tautology
Originally posted by Bisaster
Originally posted by tautology
Some would say I am "a heartbeat away" from higher office.
The Pope?
No, but I do have the power of life and death
Grim Reaper?
Originally posted by Bisaster
Originally posted by tautology
Some would say I am "a heartbeat away" from higher office.
The Pope?
No, but I do have the power of life and death
Grim Reaper?
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In rhetoric
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is one of the arts of using language as a means to persuade. Along with grammar and logic or dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. From ancient Greece to the late 19th Century, it was a central part of Western education, filling the need to train public...
, a tautology is an unnecessary or unessential (and sometimes unintentional) repetition of meaning, using different and dissimilar words that effectively say the same thing twice (often originally from different languages). It is often regarded or thought of as a fault of style
Stylistics (linguistics)
Stylistics is the study of varieties of language whose properties position that language in context, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individuals and social groups in their use of language. A variety, in this sense, is a situationally...
and was defined by Fowler
Fowler's Modern English Usage
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage , by Henry W. Fowler, is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing. Ranging from plurals and literary technique to the distinctions among like words , to foreign-term use, it became the standard for most style guides that followed —...
as "saying the same thing twice." It is not apparently necessary or essential for the entire meaning of a phrase to be repeated. If a part of the meaning is repeated in such a way that it appears as unintentional, clumsy, or lacking in dexterity, then it may be described as tautology. On the other hand, a repetition of meaning
Repetition (rhetorical device)
* Repetition is just the simple repetition of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, this is to make emphasis. This is such a common literary device that it is almost never even noted as a figure of speech....
which improves the style of a piece of speech or writing is not necessarily described as tautology.
A rhetorical tautology can also be defined as a series of statements that comprise an argument, whereby the statements are constructed in such a way that the truth of the propositions are guaranteed or that the truth of the propositions cannot be disputed by defining a term in terms of another self referentially. Consequently the statement conveys no useful information regardless of its length or complexity making it unfalsifiable. It is a way of formulating a description such that it masquerades as an explanation when the real reason for the phenomena cannot be independently derived. A rhetorical tautology should not be confused with a tautology
Tautology (logic)
In propositional logic, a tautology is a propositional formula that is true under any possible valuation of its propositional variables. For example, the propositional formula is a tautology, because the statement is true for any valuation of A...
in propositional logic, since the inherent meanings and subsequent conclusions in rhetorical and logical tautologies are very different.
Am i close? vice president of some food company i'm guessing from the clues?
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is one of the arts of using language as a means to persuade. Along with grammar and logic or dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. From ancient Greece to the late 19th Century, it was a central part of Western education, filling the need to train public...
, a tautology is an unnecessary or unessential (and sometimes unintentional) repetition of meaning, using different and dissimilar words that effectively say the same thing twice (often originally from different languages). It is often regarded or thought of as a fault of style
Stylistics (linguistics)
Stylistics is the study of varieties of language whose properties position that language in context, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individuals and social groups in their use of language. A variety, in this sense, is a situationally...
and was defined by Fowler
Fowler's Modern English Usage
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage , by Henry W. Fowler, is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing. Ranging from plurals and literary technique to the distinctions among like words , to foreign-term use, it became the standard for most style guides that followed —...
as "saying the same thing twice." It is not apparently necessary or essential for the entire meaning of a phrase to be repeated. If a part of the meaning is repeated in such a way that it appears as unintentional, clumsy, or lacking in dexterity, then it may be described as tautology. On the other hand, a repetition of meaning
Repetition (rhetorical device)
* Repetition is just the simple repetition of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, this is to make emphasis. This is such a common literary device that it is almost never even noted as a figure of speech....
which improves the style of a piece of speech or writing is not necessarily described as tautology.
A rhetorical tautology can also be defined as a series of statements that comprise an argument, whereby the statements are constructed in such a way that the truth of the propositions are guaranteed or that the truth of the propositions cannot be disputed by defining a term in terms of another self referentially. Consequently the statement conveys no useful information regardless of its length or complexity making it unfalsifiable. It is a way of formulating a description such that it masquerades as an explanation when the real reason for the phenomena cannot be independently derived. A rhetorical tautology should not be confused with a tautology
Tautology (logic)
In propositional logic, a tautology is a propositional formula that is true under any possible valuation of its propositional variables. For example, the propositional formula is a tautology, because the statement is true for any valuation of A...
in propositional logic, since the inherent meanings and subsequent conclusions in rhetorical and logical tautologies are very different.
Am i close? vice president of some food company i'm guessing from the clues?
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