He claims that it is never a mere tautology that what has some such property is good, but always a substantial claim in ethics.

"Malaysian Malaysia" is not a mere tautology because it distinguishes between nationality and ethnic classification.

The single phrase which came to her seemed a mere tautology: "One need not hate to fight."

If we say that the things known must be in the mind, we are either un-duly limiting the mind's power of knowing, or we are uttering a mere tautology.

Were the rule otherwise, the Clause would be reduced to a mere tautology.

But, the researchers say, this is not a mere tautology.

My analytics instructor says that all logic is mere tautology.

Happiness is a matter of functioning the way a human being is organized to function ... but the words in English are a mere tautology, empty.

It was not a mere tautology because it distinguishes between nationality and ethnic classification.

If this is admitted, you will have apparently gained the day, but in reality have enounced nothing but a mere tautology.