Truism
A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device, and is the opposite of falsism.[1]
In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions for a proposition may be regarded as a truism.[2] An example of such a sentence would be "Under appropriate conditions, the sun rises." Without contextual support – a statement of what those appropriate conditions are – the sentence is true but incontestable.[3]
Lapalissades, such as "If he were not dead, he would still be alive", are considered to be truisms.[citation needed]
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- Aphorism
- Axiom
- Cliché
- Contradiction
- Dictum
- Dogma
- Figure of speech
- Maxim
- Moral
- Platitude
- Synthetic proposition
- Tautology
References[]
- ^ "Definition: truism". http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/: Webster's Online Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism. Websters.
- ^ "Truism - Definition and Examples of Truism". Literary Devices. 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
- ^ "truism". dictionary.cambridge.org. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
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- Rhetoric
- Paremiology