dormitive principle

/D AO1 R M AH0 T IH0 V P R IH0 N S AH0 P AH0 L/
noun
  1. 1

    (idiomatic, rhetoric, logic, linguistics) A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.

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