Tautology vs Platitude - What's the difference?
tautology | platitude |
(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
An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a .
* 1918 — , ch XI
Unoriginality; triteness.
*'>citation
A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
As nouns the difference between tautology and platitude
is that tautology is (uncountable) redundant use of words while platitude is old spelling of.tautology
English
Noun
- 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 .
Antonyms
* contradiction in terms * (in logic) contradiction * (literary) oxymoronCoordinate terms
* (in logic) contingency, contradictionDerived terms
* tautological * tautologically * tautologise * tautologist * tautologous * tautologouslySee also
* pleonasm * redundancy * (Tautology) English words suffixed with -ologyplatitude
English
Noun
(en noun)- Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude , of course.