Definition of "tautologies" [tautologies]

• Plural form of tautology. (noun)

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• "The point is sometimes overlooked, because it might be thought that, if the propositions of logic are tautologies, that is only because we happen to have chosen a language in which tautologies are produced when certain propositions are combined."
• "I know that is not what people think when they use the expression “the workers are being exploited!” — people don’t usually speak in tautologies."
• "The Austrian philosopher wrote it to illustrate how linguistic devices such as tautologies and contradictions represent a kind of debasement of language: rather than reinforce some logical system or reveal something to us about the world, they break down as constructed figures, and actually strip away meaning."