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Comment by darkwater

4 hours ago

Well, it's called "tautology" and it's a perfectly valid rhetorical device.

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wazdra  3 hours ago

A tautology is a sentence vacuously true. This is called a pleonasm.

  • gizajob  2 hours ago

    Was about to post the same thing. It is indeed the under-appreciated pleonasm rather than a tautology.

  • darkwater  2 hours ago

    Yes, mixed the two. Point stands though.

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