Tautology
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A tautology is a statement that, by virtue of logic and nothing more, is true. Because of this, such statements contain no useful information: "The red bicycle is red". Sometimes this can extend beyond simple logic to obvious definitional facts: "The red bicycle has two wheels".
Sometimes tautologies are hard to extricate and identify when they are buried in masses of argumentative prose.
One particular kind of tautology is "assuming the antecedent", also known as "circular logic". This is often engaged in by bible thumpers, who will justify their argument with biblical citations and take the Bible's own assertions as proof of its being true. This can be stated as:
"given A (and whatever puffery is there to hide the fallacy), then (eventually) A".
Reduced to the statement "A implies A", this is actually the simplest form of tautology.
