The answer is “evidently”
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It does depend whether there is truly one goal or only one goal currently declared.
“So our ultimate goal is to build the house.
But our preliminary goal is to save £100K for the deposit on some suitable land.”
In this example the first sentence is tautology until you read the second sentence. Context is everything.
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David
‘tautologuous’, not ‘tautology’ surely 
That question should be re-directed to “The Use of English” thread…
Oops, sorry Don!
I’ll post something on that topic too.
Computerized robot
Not sure about that one. I agree that robots these days are, probably without exception, computerised, but arguably various automata in the past were robots but not computerised…
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Robot is Czech for worker. Coined by Karel Cepek in his SF novel RUR.
Ah, a palindrome.
Rossum’s Universal Robots.
I may know who that was…
G
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