"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.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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Manager: Twenty teams in the league and you lot finish bottom ?Captain: Well, it could have been worse.Manager: How ?Captain: There could have been more teams in the league !
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