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.[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

1. ↑ "Definition: truism". http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/: Webster's Online Dictionary. http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/truism?cx=partner-pub-0939450753529744:v0qd01-tdlq&cof=FORID:9&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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