Philosophy:Truism
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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.[citation needed] 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.
Lapalissades, such as "If he were not dead, he would still be alive", are considered to be truisms.[citation needed]
See also
- 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. http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/truism?cx=partner-pub-0939450753529744%3Av0qd01-tdlq&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=truism&sa=Search#922. "An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism. Websters."
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