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• n  (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
  the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology
• n  useless repetition
  to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology

• If critics can't validate that tautology, we're useless.
• It's a historical tautology that leaders are generated by their times and that great issues produce great men.
• Aside from the plodding threats and grievance rosters, bin Laden's statements are tangles of tautology.

News & Articles

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• Elysium squanders its style on painfully obvious allegory
  It's a bit silly talking about a science-fiction film like Elysium as an allegory, because that's almost a tautology.
  Aug. 7, 2013 - Charleston City Paper

Quotes

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• George Stigler in Australia-Israel Jewish Affairs Council
  The imagined gain on the Excel [spread]sheet can in no way compensate the long term devastation of such cultural 'self-suicide' (an ugly tautology, but as this is an American expression we may, in some parallel future, have to learn to live with... Peter Carey http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Carey_(novelist)&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFQBxtDinz91JvcmmnaRI05qmOt-g Taipei Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2009/04/21/2003441594&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEW-lppUqE9B8O_7KvRhOCwj_v-yw Apr 20, 2009 98383 130510 tautology As Nobel Laureate George Stigler pointed out, A reason can always be found for whatever we observe man to do," which "turns utility into a tautology."
• Felicity Huffman in USA Today
  If it were called Housewives, I'd feel different,says Huffman. "But it's Desperate Housewives. On one hand it's an oxymoron, on the other hand, it's a tautology. ...... They're opposites, and they're the same. So I love the title."