Banal vs Tautology - What's the difference?
banal | tautology |
Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
(uncountable) redundant use of words
(countable) An expression that features tautology.
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy :
(countable, logic) A statement that is true for all values of its variables
As an adjective banal
is common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.As a noun tautology is
redundant use of words.banal
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Adjective
(en-adj)Synonyms
* cliche, * corny * everyday * hackneyed * prosaic * trite * vapid * meh * See alsoAntonyms
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- It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".
- ''The expression "raze to the ground" is a tautology, since the word "raze" includes the notion "to the ground".
- Pure mathematics consists of tautologies , analogous to ‘men are men’, but usually more complicated.
- Given a Boolean A, "A OR (NOT A)" is a tautology .
- A logical statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction is a contingency.
- A tautology''' can be verified by constructing a truth tree for its negation: if all of the leaf nodes of such truth tree end in X's, then the original (pre-negated) formula is a '''tautology .