trivialism
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English
Etymology
Noun
trivialism (countable and uncountable, plural trivialisms)
- (logic) The theory that every proposition and its negation is true.
- 2004, Graham Priest, J. C. Beall, Bradley Armour-Garb, The Law of Non-contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, page 252:
- If it is possible for trivialism to be true, it may be false as well as true that all humans are mammals
- 2008, Peter Baofu, The future of post-human mathematical logic, page 97:
- This charge of trivialism is also called the principle of explosion
- 2012, Koji Tanaka, Francesco Berto, Edwin Mares, Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications, page 296:
- Trivialism is pretty hopeless as a philosophy, although it is very easy to defend/maintain verbally!
- A trivial matter or method; a triviality.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
- 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 ?