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.

References

^ "Definition: truism". Webster's Online Dictionary. Archived from the original on 28 June 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2010. An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; — opposed to falsism.
^ "Truism - Definition and Examples of Truism". Literary Devices. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
^ "truism". Dictionary.Cambridge.org. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

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[1] "Definition: truism". Webster's Online Dictionary. Archived from the original on 28 June 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2010. An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; — opposed to falsism.

[2] "Truism - Definition and Examples of Truism". Literary Devices. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

[3] "truism". Dictionary.Cambridge.org. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

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