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What does tautological mean?

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Adjective
  1. of, relating to, or using tautology
  2. using repetition or excessive wordiness; pleonastic or circumlocutionary
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Trying to imagine what a society will look like by looking at a list of tautological ideals is not very easy.
It is tautological to say that the creation of an embryo leads to the creation of a human being.
Until it is posted.  It is therefore tautological to argue that online posting creates its own exception to the principles of privacy.
As a consequence, the constraints imposed on decisions by expected utility are only justified by a tautological definition of normativity.
As I will argue, however, the text does present the possibility of a woman stealing what is already in her possession through its account of the tautological crime.
A tautological sentence, perhaps, but one that nevertheless needs to be repeated and understood.

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