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Tautological - A tautology is a logical statement that is trivially true, that is can never be made false
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* '''tautologically''' → a tautology is a logical statement that is trivially true (i.e. which can never be falsified), or a redundant or vacuous statement
  
It also implies a redundant or vacuous statement
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* '''t–t–''' → stuttering, which in FW is always a sign of [[HCE|HCE's]] guilt
  
The spelling implies Tauf Tauf c.f. [[Tauftauf]] thou art peatrick
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* '''''Gk'' tau:''' nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, the letter T → ''tautau'' = TT → [[Tee_the_tootal_of_the_fluid_hang_the_twoddle_of_the_fuddled,_O|Tee the tootal]] at 006.28
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* '''tautau–''' → [[Page_3|003.10]] [[tauftauf]]
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* '''tautaulogically''' → in the first draft Joyce wrote, '''testamount to''' (i.e. ''tantamount to'' and ''testifies to'', with an overtone also of ''Testament'')
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050059&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake]

Revision as of 08:58, 13 July 2006

  • tautologically → a tautology is a logical statement that is trivially true (i.e. which can never be falsified), or a redundant or vacuous statement
  • t–t– → stuttering, which in FW is always a sign of HCE's guilt
  • Gk tau: nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, the letter T → tautau = TT → Tee the tootal at 006.28