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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(logic) The theory that every proposition and its negation is true..
If it is possible for trivialism to be true, it may be false as well as true that all humans are mammals […]
This charge of trivialism is also called the principle of explosion […]
Trivialism is pretty hopeless as a philosophy, although it is very easy to defend/maintain verbally!
When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?
Use trivialism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Trivialism means (logic) The theory that every proposition and its negation is true..
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If it is possible for trivialism to be true, it may be false as well as true that all humans are mammals […]
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