Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates 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 a falsism.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions for a proposition may be regarded as a truism.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> An example of such a sentence would be "Under appropriate conditions, the sun rises." Without contextual supportTemplate:Spaced ndasha statement of what those appropriate conditions areTemplate:Spaced ndashthe sentence is true but incontestable.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Lapalissades, such as "If he were not dead, he would still be alive", are considered to be truisms.
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- Aphorism
- Axiom
- Cliché
- Contradiction
- Dictum
- Dogma
- Figure of speech
- Maxim
- Moral
- Platitude
- Synthetic proposition
- Tautology