the autological grandiloquence of pleonastic and periphrastic circumlocution
bkmarcus
This line from Human Action strikes me as very funny:
If maximizing profits means that a man in all market transactions aims at increasing to the utmost the advantage derived, it is a pleonastic and periphrastic circumlocution. (243)
It is also a great example, I think, of autological grandiloquence.
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