Difference between revisions of "Tautaulogically"

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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'')
 
* '''tautaulogically''' → in the first draft Joyce wrote, '''testamount to''' (i.e. ''tantamount to'' and ''testifies to'', with an overtone also of ''Testament'')
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050059&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake]
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050059&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake]
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*'''tautology:''' circular reasoning
  
 
[[Category: Tauftauf]]
 
[[Category: Tauftauf]]

Latest revision as of 07:42, 12 November 2023

  • 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
  • tau (ταυ): (Greek) nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, the letter T → tautau = TT → Tee the tootal in line 28
  • tautaulogically → in the first draft Joyce wrote, testamount to (i.e. tantamount to and testifies to, with an overtone also of Testament)
  • tautology: circular reasoning