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first truths

first truths is the plural of first truth.

Meaning of first truth

Noun

first truth (plural first truths)

  1. A statement that is not proved but rather supposed or held as obvious, forming together with other such statements the basis of a system of statements obtained from them by inference; an axiom.
    • These are the principles also treated of, in a former work, under the name of First Truths. They are not, like our knowledge of the other kind, the result of any process either of investigation or of reasoning; and, for the possession of them, no man either depends upon his observation, or has...1836, John Abercrombie, Jacob Abbott, The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings

Questions about first truths

What is first truths the plural of?
First truths is the plural of first truth.

Words near first truths in the dictionary

  1. first times
  2. first timing
  3. first touch
  4. first touches
  5. first truth
  6. first truths
  7. first unit
  8. first units
  9. first up
  10. first violin
  11. first violinist

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