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die Tautologie

tautology; redundant repetition

Dass wir gemeinsam zusammenarbeiten sollen, hielt sie für eine Tautologie, bis der Kursleiter erklärte, warum solche Wiederholungen manchmal bewusst eingesetzt werden.

She considered the instruction that we should jointly work together a tautology, until the course leader explained why such repetitions are sometimes used deliberately.

tautology; statement true under every truth assignment

Als wir die Wahrheitstafel ausgefüllt hatten, erwies sich die kompliziert wirkende Formel als Tautologie, die unabhängig von unseren Annahmen wahr blieb.

Once we had completed the truth table, the apparently complicated formula proved to be a tautology that remained true regardless of our assumptions.

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