"Tautology" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Describing tbe same thing twice in one sentence in equivalent terms; a fault in rhetoric. It differs from
A repetition of the same meaning in different words;
needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a
representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of
itself, as in the following lines: --//The dawn is overcast, the
morning lowers,/And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.
government is legitimate not so much because it represents the 'general will', but because its policies are, ideally and counterfactually, the result of the public deliberation of all who are concerned by the decision
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One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic …
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