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Tautology

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Tautology, describing the same thing twice in one sentence in equivalent terms; a fault in rhetoric. It differs from repetition or iteration, which is repeating the same sentence in the same or equivalent terms: the latter is sometimes either excusable or necessary in an argument or address; the former (tautology) never.

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