tautology
(noun)
A statement that is true for all values of its variables.
Examples of tautology in the following topics:
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Milton Friedman
- According to Friedman, language is a set of tautologies whose primary function is to organize and classify empirical material to facilitate our understanding.
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Correlation is Not Causation
- However, the causes underlying the correlation, if any, may be indirect and unknown, and high correlations also overlap with identity relations (tautology) where no causal process exists.
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Long-Term Memory
- While this makes for a neat tautology, some have suggested that it is incomplete.