Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
TAUTOLOGY
tautology
(noun) useless repetition; “to say that something is ‘adequate enough’ is a tautology”
tautology
(noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; “the statement ‘he is brave or he is not brave’ is a tautology”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tautology (countable and uncountable, plural tautologies)
(uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
(countable) An expression that features tautology.
(countable, logic) In propositional logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables. In first-order logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.
Antonyms
• (linguistics: expression): contradiction in terms
• (in logic): contradiction
• (literary): oxymoron
Coordinate terms
• (in logic): contingency, contradiction
Source: Wiktionary
Tau*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [L. tautologia, Gr. tautologie.] (Rhet.)
Definition: 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.
Syn.
– Repetition.
– Tautology, Repetition. There may be frequent repetitions (as in legal instruments) which are warranted either by necessity or convenience; but tautology is always a fault, being a sameness of expression which adds nothing to the sense or the sound.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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