Which of these is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning?
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.
In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions for a proposition may be regarded as a truism. 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", also considered to be truisms.
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Rafi Manory
I think that this question should not have been approved. Very poor wording, confusing and not informative. THis is a trivia club, not a guses-the-intention club.
Jason P Kara
erik hughes, don’t be salty because you got it wrong!
erik hughes
A cliche is something not worth mentioning, but a truism is something people need to be reminded of sometimes. Bad question/answer.