dormitive principle

dormitive principle
A type of tautology in which an item is being explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.

We note Batesons (1968) dormitive principle at work in which behaviors are described as traits such as LD, which then are used to explain the behavior.


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