trivialism
trivialism noun: the theory that every proposition and its negation is true.
Noun
trivialism (countable and uncountable, plural trivialisms)
- 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 […]2004, Graham Priest, J. C. Beall, Bradley Armour-Garb, The Law of Non-contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, page 252
- This charge of trivialism is also called the principle of explosion […]2008, Peter Baofu, The future of post-human mathematical logic, page 97
- A trivial matter or method; a triviality.
- 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 […]?1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)
Forms of trivialism
| plural | trivialisms |
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Origin of trivialism
From trivial + -ism.
Questions about trivialism
- What does trivialism mean?
- Trivialism means the theory that every proposition and its negation is true.
- What part of speech is trivialism?
- Trivialism is a noun.
- What is the plural of trivialism?
- The plural of trivialism is trivialisms.
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